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Re: AD and enforced password policies
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon () orthanc ca>
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 18:10:33 -0800 (PST)
I just went through some calculations for a (government) site that has the following rules:
[...]
Under the plausible assumption that very many people will start with a string of digits, continue with a string of lower-case letters to reach seven characters, and then add a period, there are only ~5,000,000,000 choices. That's not many at all -- but the rules look just fine...
1234;lkj rolls off the fingers quite nicely, don't you think?
Current thread:
- Re: AD and enforced password policies, (continued)
- Re: AD and enforced password policies Måns Nilsson (Jan 04)
- Re: AD and enforced password policies Randy Bush (Jan 03)
- Re: AD and enforced password policies Todd Underwood (Jan 03)
- Re: AD and enforced password policies Steven Bellovin (Jan 03)
- RE: AD and enforced password policies Jones, Barry (Jan 05)
- Re: AD and enforced password policies Gary Buhrmaster (Jan 03)
- Re: AD and enforced password policies Jimmy Hess (Jan 03)
- Re: AD and enforced password policies Måns Nilsson (Jan 04)
- Re: AD and enforced password policies Steven Bellovin (Jan 02)
- Re: AD and enforced password policies Lyndon Nerenberg (Jan 02)
- Re: AD and enforced password policies Steven Bellovin (Jan 02)
- Re: AD and enforced password policies Jimmy Hess (Jan 02)