One of those recently posted lists of quotations included a reference to Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q276304, from late June, which described the following problem: "SYMPTOMS If you log on to an MIT realm, press CTRL+ALT+DELETE, click Change Password, type your existing MIT password, and then type a new, simple password that does not pass the dictionary check in Kadmind, you may receive the following error message: Your password must be at least 18770 characters and cannot repeat any of your previous 30689 passwords. Please type a different password. Type a password that meets these requirements in both text boxes. Note that the number of required characters changes from 17,145 to 18,770 with the installation of SP1." Here's the KB URL: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q276/3/04.ASP There's no April 1 in the KB article. Does anyone know the story behind this? I'm in the copyediting stages of my "Authentication" book (already listed on Amazon) but I might want to slip in something about this incident, if I can get the real story. Rick. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Your password must be at least 18,770 char...
Rick Smith at Secure Computing Mon, 09 Jul 2001 14:26:53 -0700
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