On Sunday, July 9, 2006, 14:56:51, Don Brown wrote:
> ...
> Also, allow the user to select the characters, symbols and digits,
> i.e. we avoid zero and "O", one and "l", v and w, V and W and the
> characters commonly used in connection with databases, such as %, ?,
> etc.
IMHO this is not a good idea
* a frequent recommendation is to replace letters with look
alike digits (and vice versa)
* reducing the potential key space is not a good thing
* what does databases have to do with picking passwords?
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