Prevent use of weak PINs | Voters

Prevent use of weak PINs

Hendrik Thom

The PIN protection is a very nice feature. But users tend to use weak PINs. Therefore, it would be desirable to restrict the usage of weak PINs. You could implement some additional rules:

The PIN must not contain an ascending or descending series (like 1234 or 7654)
The PIN must not contain identical numbers (like 1111 or 5555)

November 19, 2019

Angela Gaida

Merged in a post:

reject trivial pins as authenticator in app

John Burmester

user should not be able to use trivial pins (1111,1234 etc.) as authenticator in app.

August 31, 2022

Daniel Roller

Hendrik Thom: Thanks for the feedback on this! We actually considered shipping such a feature with the first version of this feature but dropped it in favor of an earlier release. I can totally relate to this request, though, since 'weak' PINs somehow undermine the idea of this whole security feature.