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If you include 1 uppercase, 1 lowercase, 1 number and have at least 8 characters, you should meet the password complexity requirements of most servers.
by zeep 9y ago
If you include 1 uppercase, 1 lowercase, 1 number and have at least 8 characters, you should meet the password complexity requirements of most servers.
- jjuhl 9y agoNo. 8 characters is too short - no matter if you add in special symbols and upper/lower case. It's too easy to brute-force crack. You need something longer. And once you make it longer, the extra alphabet size from upper/lower case and symbols matters less.
- zeep 9y agoI was not talking about brute-force protection... I'm talking about meeting the password complexity requirements of the servers (same as the article)
- IshKebab 9y agoYou probably need a symbol to satisfy a lot of them too.
- zeep 9y agoI find the ones that don't accept symbols to be more common than the ones that require one, which is why I don't include symbols by default.