Yikes! I'd forget three days after I made the password if I made it to
those criteria! :(
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:49, Sabuj Pattanayek <sab...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Russ Crawford
> <russ.m.crawf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> What standards do you have for strong passwords?
>
>
> * 8 - 16 chars
> * The password must contain characters from ALL of the following character
> sets:
>
> 1. abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
> 2. ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
> 3. 0123456789
> 4. ~!@#$%^&*()_+-=;./[]{}><,./?
>
> * must change the password every 365 days
> * If you already have a password, when you go to change it, it cannot
> match any of your 10 previous passwords
> * password cannot contain 3 consecutive letters from your login
> * password cannot contain your login in reverse
>
>>
>> What have you considered as a password management process/program?
>
> gpg symmetrically encrypted file with a really long passphrase >= 20 chars.
>
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