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I am a bit concerned that this will be read as "Password policies must require the use of no special characters", possibly as a misguided attempt to push people
by CGamesPlay 5y ago
I am a bit concerned that this will be read as "Password policies must require the use of no special characters", possibly as a misguided attempt to push people away from adding using "Password123!" as the password. I wish the memo had spelled out a little more clearly that there's nothing wrong with special characters, but they shouldn't be required. Also, is a whitespace a special character?
- pm90 5y agoIf we were to stop using special characters and only use human friendly phrases (eg “jupiterIsTheSmallestPlanet”) it wouldn’t be the end of the world.
- godelski 5y agoBut if a whitespace is not a special character (or punctuation) we can add entropy with "Jupiter is the smallest planet!" while still being human readable and using the passphrase paradigm.