At what length does a password stop making sense?
A password of 22 characters is more than sufficient for the foreseeable future. A password of 33 characters is ridiculously long . A password of 46 characters is just... I don't know what to say. So, to …
web application - What chars should I not allow in passwords ...
From a security/implementation perspective, there shouldn't be any need to disallow characters apart from '\0' (which is hard to type anyway). The more characters you bar, the smaller the total phase …
Does a password policy with a restriction of repeated characters ...
May 1, 2023 · A security value called Restriction of Repeated Characters for Passwords (QPWDLMTREP) can be configured in IBM i. If QPWDLMTREP has a value of 1, then "the …
Is it bad to use special characters in passwords? [duplicate]
Feb 5, 2020 · The #1 best hint for password security is to use a new, long, random password for every Internet site you register with, so your password isn't lost in the next hack. Because you can't be sure …
account security - Why use random characters in passwords ...
Dec 2, 2021 · Forcing users to add complexity to the characters in their passwords forces attackers to increase the complexity of their brute-force attacks, though it actually weakens the overall entropy. It …
How long should the maximum password length be?
Nov 12, 2010 · This question seems to have become the canonical question on this site for "how long should my user password be?", but most of the answers seem to focus on the administrator's …
Why do some passwords not allow certain types of characters?
2 Is there any programing related reason why some password cannot have certain characters? If the idea in storing a password is to store it's hash, since a hashing function can take any input (ok at …
What technical reasons are there to have low maximum password …
Mar 31, 2013 · 894 I have always wondered why so many websites have very firm restrictions on password length (exactly 8 characters, up to 8 characters, etc). These tend to be banks or other sites …
Could these special characters be used in a password?
May 25, 2016 · Special characters don't add as much to security as you might think. They increase the number of possible characters, but the most powerful multiplier comes from password length. Let's …
Password-generating - which non-alphanumeric symbols can I use?
2 I'd like to make a password generator - strictly for myself. I'd like four "levels" of characters, but I'm a bit unsure of which symbols should be in each of the three latter ones - since I don't know which …