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Rickard Andersson2012-Dec-01 10:09
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Mustafa Demirhan17-Jan-02 13:48
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GeneralMaximum password length Pin
Jonathan Gilligan11-Dec-01 5:02
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moliate12-Dec-01 0:18
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Jonathan Gilligan16-Dec-01 7:40
Jonathan Gilligan16-Dec-01 7:40 
moliate wrote:
You really want to make it hell to log in for your users, don't you?

I said the maximum, not the minimum. The reason is that I find it much easier to choose passwords from random phonemes via a Markov chain rather than by choosing random characters. 10 random elements from a third-order Markov chain must have several dozen characters to achieve the same entropy as 10 random alphanumeric/symbol characters, but can be more easily remembered because it can be pronounced with sounds consistent with the user's native language.

Those who want to use this system for choosing truly random passwords find that the time it takes to type in 30 characters is significantly less than the time it takes to look up an 8-character password in a secure password-storage device.

Thanks for the explanation of the NT password mechanism. I may need to accelerate the move to all-Win2K systems just because of this security problem!
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moliate16-Dec-01 10:41
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Matt Newman11-Dec-01 16:05
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Rickard Andersson2010-Dec-01 11:58
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