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Enforcing password strength

Enforcing password strength

Posted Oct 14, 2011 7:20 UTC (Fri) by Cato (subscriber, #7643)
In reply to: Enforcing password strength by k8to
Parent article: Enforcing password strength

It's still a lot better to try to use a 12-character random password with punctuation etc, even if only 6 or 8 characters are used, than to use a fixed password. If the site does have weaknesses, only that one password is compromised.


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