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- injb 6y agoI agree that it's ridiculous, but on this: "Even though the password policy does suggest that your password should be at least 8 characters long, other rules such as inability to special characters make the password weak not strong." ...I think it's the 12 character limit that makes it weak, rather than the inability to use special characters. Adding more characters gives more possibilities than extending the range of each character. Length and randomness make a strong password.
- rukshn 6y agoYes that is also true, but a password like 'userfirstnameuserlastname' can be weaker than '$userfirstname@123' isn't it?
- injb 6y agoYou could be right about those examples. But the real problem is that neither of them are particularly random. The first one is easy to guess for obvious reasons, and the second one might be a little harder, but not much. Compared to something like the famous "correcthosebatterystaple" (https://xkcd.com/936/ https://xkcd.com/936/) they're both easy. Think of it like this: you have n^m possibilities, where n is the number of choices you have for each character, and m is the number of characters. Which number matters more?