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By the way, Skype's registration page has inexplicable password rules. aaaaa1 - strength: medium aaaaa12345 - strength: poor =aStu!et$aQ@212345 - strength: p
by jere 14y ago
By the way, Skype's registration page has inexplicable password rules.
aaaaa1 - strength: medium
aaaaa12345 - strength: poor
=aStu!et$aQ@212345 - strength: poor
- lambda 14y agoYeah, at my last job, someone implemented a password strength checking feature that would actually reject stronger passwords. It required: 1. At least 3 out of the 4 categories uppercase, lowercase, digit, special character 2. No character could be repeated more than two times 3. No sequence of 3 or more increasing or decreasing letters or numbers could be present (and not even consecutive: "ta/Tbs#cz" would be rejected because it contains "abc"). 4. No English words or names could be present. 5. It must be at least 8 characters There may have been other restrictions too, I don't recall the exact details. This meant that perfectly reasonable passphrases (like "correct horse battery staple") would be rejected. Even if you tried to come up with a good password that met the rule, you might fail by accident because "89cRbcThe*)" has the word "The" in it. You would generally have to come up with a password, then whittle it down slowly until you passed all of the rules, usually making it weaker in the process.
- mikegioia 14y agoSo... were ANY passwords created? I could see the success rate on this at like 1%.
- smsm42 14y agoThey must have really dedicated customers. That, or their users are required to use their system under the pain of multi-year imprisonment. I see no other way why would anyone agree to suffer through this.