> <brion> "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" ain't secure
> <TimStarling> "password" isn't secure either, and that's 8
>
> It seems to me that a pretty secure approach would be to have the system
> give the user his 8-12 character password, rather than letting him pick a
> password. Then we can be assured that he's not doing stuff like "p@ssword"
> to meet the complexity requirements.

Well if we are going to go down that road, requring public/private key
pairs would also be more secure. However i doubt either would be acceptable
to users.

-bawolff
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