https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17604





--- Comment #4 from Purodha Blissenbach <[email protected]>  
2009-02-24 19:42:37 UTC ---
@demon: I won't explain why reducing the number of possible choices reduces
password security. Read basic texts on the subject matter.

The only potentially productive thing towards more security that this extension
could do was enforcing a minimum password length.

Forcing specific sets of symbls into passwords (digits, ASCII,
interpunctuation, lowercase, uppercase, etc.) reduces passwort security in
general. If this extension is not deleted, the we MUST clearly caution
potential users not to use such counterproductive kinds of rules, unless they
really WANT to weaken statistic security.


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