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Airlines, too. I recently had to enter an alphanumeric password at or below around 12 characters, I think. Some companies also add so many requirements to the

by kmfrk 14y ago

Airlines, too. I recently had to enter an alphanumeric password at or below around 12 characters, I think. Some companies also add so many requirements to the password that I think it does more harm than good to the entropy of it.

Steko 14y ago
For many web services entropy isn't a big deal because they use computationally hard hashing functions and have sensible server-side limits that outright foil brute force attempts.
- ams6110 14y ago
  until their hashes show up on pastebin
  - Steko 14y ago
    Entropy and work factor are basically the same thing, that's why they call it key stretching.
celer 14y ago
I recently was forced to enter a password of not more than 8 characters as part of college applications. I was somewhat flummoxed, because the disposable password I use for applications I want to be able to forget about is nine characters. That is the lowest I have ever seen: I hope that there is noone worse.
- olivier1664 14y ago
  Have you try to enter some quote in your password? http://xkcd.com/327/ http://xkcd.com/327/