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Re: PW validation (was: Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful?)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 23 Apr 2000 20:21:26 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> > Test for a minimum length, and force a mix of letters (upper and lower case)
> > and numbers/special characters, and it will be good enough.
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> SW:Ep1
> M:Tron6989
> 70'sLEGO
> 2*4Brick
> Pi3.14159
> 12:34Sunday
Oops, almost forgot to list the classic counterexample!
E=mc^2
That uses a mix of...
* At least one uppercase letter from A-Z
* At least one lowercase letter from a-z
* At least one numeric digit from 0-9
* At least one "special" character
...and yet it's still a terrible password.
--Todd
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