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Re: Password complexity - improvement

Subject: Re: Password complexity - improvement
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:09:56 +0200
On 2007-08-16 Thor (Hammer of God) wrote:
Is there a way to enforce all 4 properties.

Enforcing passwords that MUST consist of uppercase letters, lowercase
letters, numbers AND special characters reduces the total number of
possible passwords, which in consequence has a negative impact on
your security.

Just to follow up, this is incorrect. More possible source characters
== more possible combinations.  Can you elaborate on what you mean by
this?

This is not about more possible source characters. The amount of source
characters is exactly the same in both cases. I'm talking about limiting
the possible combinations out of these source characters. See my other
reply.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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