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Bruse Marshall has put together a useful comparison of password requirements from OWASP ASVS v3 and v4.

Bruce Marshall has put together a comparison of OWASP ASVS v3 and v4 password requirements: OWASP ASVS 3.0 & 4.0 Comparison. This is useful in and of itself, and is also the sort of thing that more standards bodies should do, by default.

It's all too common to have a new standard come out without clear diffs. It's all too common for new standards to build closely on other standards, without clearly saying what they've altered and why. This leaves the analysis of 'what's different' to each user of the standards. It increases the probability of errors. Both drive cost and waste effort. We should judge standards on their delivery of these important contextual documents.