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From: Booth Martin <Booth@MartinVT.com> > In a perfect World I would salute you Leif > What little damage I have seen occur in the iSeries world has come from > people that already have the passwords, and are people with fairly high > security levels. 128 character passphrases would not have prevented one > single piece of damage I have ever seen. > I actually agree with you here. 128-character passwords are ridiculous, my point was just that 8 characters long is not more secure than 7, and that IF you demanded more security you'll need to go to the new encryption method (that doesn't work with Windows). I did not say that I recommended that. For me, a well chosen 5, 6 or 7 character password is ok. *Requiring* 8 as a minimum is false security. If the 5, 6 or 7 character password can be broken, so can the 8, 9, and 10 character password. No need to *require" a longer password thinking that you are more secure.
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