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If your old password was compromised by a keylogger, your newly rotated password will be too.

There original threat model for forced password rotation was supposedly based on hash cracking time. This is a stupid threat model; the guy from NIST who wrote it back in the 80s admitted it was based on no research but was added arbitrarily because it sounded good at the time.



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