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Re: See what a weak password will get ya?



On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 07:24:01PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote:
> I second that recommendation.  I always prefer to have passwords with 
> the following features:
> 
> Minimum of 8 characters
> At least 1 capital letter
> At least 1 lower case letter
> At least 1 number
> At least 1 special character

Except that in an ideal world where everyone uses random passwords, this
kind of restrictions actually makes the password easier to guess.

Frank

-- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan



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