Thread: Is Your Password Puny?
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Old 01-22-2010, 06:44 PM
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Originally Posted by MAG58 View Post
At IU, where I go to college, it's a requirement for your school log on that it be a passphrase with a minimum of 4 words, each word must have at least two letters, and there must be spaces and one capital letter involved. It's a PITA.

Luckily for me I also misspelled a word which gives an extra level of security

I have worked as a PKI trusted agent for authentication and you would be amazed at how hard it is under some circumstances for people to make a strong password, so I actually made a 30 minute mandatory class for the execs after one of them got his identity stolen and we brought them all together and found out thirteen out of twenty had identical passwords for certain accounts!
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