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Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters
- Itaxpica 14y agoThis is clearly a brilliant security feature - a brute-force attack on a password of that length would be all but impossible! Bravo, Microsoft!
- brudgers 14y agoIt applies to Windows 2000 Server and related products. The fix is included in SP1.
- arxanas 14y agoI rather think the opposite — every password would comprise of 18770 of the same character.
- Turing_Machine 14y agoAh, but it can't repeat any of the previous 30,689 passwords. Better break out the Unicode chart...
- dangoldin 14y agoI love this note: "Note that the number of required characters changes from 17,145 to 18,770 with the installation of SP1."
- taziden 14y agoI bet this comes from another top hacker news story from today : "The best interface is no interface" http://www.cooper.com/journal/2012/08/the-best-interface-is-no-interface.html http://www.cooper.com/journal/2012/08/the-best-interface-is-...
- kmfrk 14y agoAs an aside, good god is the new support section on Microsoft.com criminally gorgeous. They really went above and beyond in the redesign. It feels wrong to take this amount of pleasure in reading a support knowledge database.
- arank 14y agoThis seems like an error one machine will show to another machine trying to create an account.
- jQueryIsAwesome 14y agoYour password must contain at least one unicode character; one space character, one control character, one mathematical notation character, one non-spacing character, one cyrillic character, one tonemic character and remember NOT to use any basic alphanumerical characters ([A-Z0-9]) as those are widely used in brute force attacks and therefore can't be considered safe.
- krapp 14y agoThe password which can be expressed is not the true password.