Since I use my password on a mainframe, I limited myself to the IBM 370 National Characters. Using the same characters on Netware, when I used the @ and # characters, my logins would fail about 50% of the time. No such problems with the $.
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 9:19 PM, Clark Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > Since organizations have started requiring special characters in > passwords, I have been wondering which special characters are stable > across code pages. I know the US dollar sign in EBCDIC is not > becoming the pound sterling sign in Britain and the Japaneses Yen sign > in Japan. I'm thinking of the 8 it EBCDIC code pages and the 8 bit > Latin-1 ISO code pages. > > Another thing that has always baffled is the idea that even if I have > a strong password that is NOT written down, I still should change it > once a month. If the site I am logging into enforces good management > by locking the account after say 5 attempts in 15 minutes thus > allowing no more that 16 attempts an hour or 140544 attempts a year, > how is not changing my password going to make that much of a > difference since at 1,404,544 attempts in 10 years that is still a > small fraction of the 656 billion possibilities with a 8 character > password assuming ONLY 30 characters in a character set? > > Clark Morris > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
