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Yup. I would think a sane password policy would also disallow neighboring characters on any keyboard and sequential characters in any language. It could be a
by ballard 13y ago
Yup. I would think a sane password policy would also disallow neighboring characters on any keyboard and sequential characters in any language. It could be a pain to implement, but it's better than doing nothing.
- yaph 13y agoNo that's not sane. As you say yourself it is a pain to implement and complex code is more prone to errors. It is far more easy to require a minimum length and choose a sane minimum, 8 is not. Also see this XKCD http://xkcd.com/936/ http://xkcd.com/936/ as an information theory refresher.