Pasting passwords gets seal of approval from National Cyber Security Centre

Written by Rebecca Hill on 16 January 2017
 
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The pros of pasting passwords far outweigh the cons and organisations should stop preventing people from doing so, the National Cyber Security Centre.
 
According to the centre, allowing users to paste their passwords into forms improves security, while efforts to stop it actually reduces security.
 
“We believe [stopping password pasting] is one of those 'best practice' ideas that has a common sense instant appeal that may have made sense once. Considering the bigger picture today, it really doesn't make sense,” a blogpost on the centre’s website said.
 
It argued that the main benefit to allowing password pasting is that it allows people to use a password manager – software that chooses, stores and enters passwords automatically into online forms. This means users can have a number of different, more complex passwords for the sites they use without having to remember them.
 
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