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Our auditors like passwords at least 6 characters. We haven't turned on long passwords; ours are still all uppercase.Using letters and numbers, 6 characters will give 26x36x36x36x36x36 = 1,572,120,576 possible passwords.
You have to balance security vs usability. Requiring a 'license plate' password is no more secure than 6 characters that are semi-significant.
My favorite password generator is to open a book, magazine, or other work of literature to a random page, close my eyes, and point. The word + page number becomes the password.
It has the advantage of being memorizable without requiring a yellow sticky under the keyboard.
--Paul E Musselman PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The rules being proposed > > Must be at least 4 charactersMust be changed every 180 days Can't change your password more than once a day Must contain at least 3 of the following 4 One lower case alpha character (a-z) One upper case alpha character (A-Z) One numeric character (0-9) One special character> (!@#$%^&*()=+{}[]|\:;"'<>,.?/) < <mailto:!@#$%^&*()=+{}[]|\:;> >,.?/)> >
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