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No. 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. An
by jjuhl 9y ago
No. 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)