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@crisz three passwords should not be kept in plain text, he would not know you cursed him...
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Source comment at https://blog.codinghorror.com/passw...
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@Jifuna Because some people are just criminally bad at their job.
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@timurtu What for hashing system do you use? I use bcrypt.
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@Bacontaskmaster its a sign of baaaaad security. I've heard
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@Charmgoggles so microsoft has bad security then? Neat (hotmail is one offender, paypal and ebay are next, google is fine)
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@Bacontaskmaster probably not then. If you use a hash of the password the password length shouldn't matter since the hash is a fixed length. But I'm no security specialist
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@Bacontaskmaster long passwords are not necessarily good. It depends on how many different characters you use and then what your PW is actually made up of
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@Krokoklemme well, random numbers and letters. All lowercase, sure, but it will not be broken by brute force unless you have time to dump an md5 rainbow table in a password field. At which point you are better off brute forcing it.
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@Chownas sad:(
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Did you say security?
10 points for next century option.
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"This Is My Secure Password" <-- Sorry, no spaces allowed.
"ThisIsMySecurePassword" <-- Sorry, Passwords must include a number
"ThisIsMySecurePassword1" <-- Sorry, Passwords must include a special character
"ThisIsMySecurePassword 1" <-- Sorry, no spaces allowed
"ThisIsMySecurePassword%1" <-- Sorry, the % character is not allowed
"ThisIsMySecurePassword_1" <-- Sorry, passwords must be shorter than 16 characters
"Fuck" <-- Sorry, passwords must longer than 6 characters
"Fuck_it" <-- Sorry, passwords can't contain bad language
"Password_1" <-- Accepted.
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