Right. The original proposal for strong passwords consists of the same rules used by Microsoft and others. Makes the standard easier to remember and easier to explain to end users.
Darin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rod Dorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2006 4:29 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Strong Password enforcement 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? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The avalanche has already started, it is too Rod Dorman late for the pebbles to vote." - Ambassador Kosh To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
