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I fully agree, but I'd focus more on the length than on the character set. It is not a problem if the password contains only alphanum characters, as long as tho
by vog 15y ago
I fully agree, but I'd focus more on the length than on the character set. It is not a problem if the password contains only alphanum characters, as long as those are random.
For instance, a plain alphanum password of length 9 is stronger than a password of length 8 that allows for special characters. (because 62^9 > 94^8)
In other words, adding one character to your password is as good as choosing from a bigger character set.
Okay, beginning at length 10, you'd need to add two characters, but that's really all you need to do up to length 20. (which is an insane length for a random password anyway)
- Jach 15y agoC^x grows a lot faster than x^C, except for specific x's and C's you're almost always much better off adding to the length. And 20's nuttin'. At the risk of publishing more hastily written code for critiquing, here's a shell script password generator I use sometimes. https://gist.github.com/1058565 https://gist.github.com/1058565