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> having two Ls in a row ... has no bearing on how secure the password is. At least some password cracking programs are built to anticipate human tendencies, w
by hackuser 12y ago
> having two Ls in a row ... has no bearing on how secure the password is.
At least some password cracking programs are built to anticipate human tendencies, which I would guess includes repeating characters. If I were designing a password cracker, I would target human-created passwords and not random passwords. For example, I would have the program guess 123456 before it guesses R%Vg9~\
- Zikes 12y agoThe other complexity rules rule that out, though. If I have a password 10 characters long with at least one uppercase, one lowercase, 1 digit, and 1 special character then having one of those repeated won't make it any less secure. Rigidly enforcing that rule doesn't make sense, it's saying that "R%Vg9~\LL" is less secure than "R%Vg9~\".