Passwords: does size matter, what characters?

[Ted Roche]

On Mar 9, 2006, at 5:31 PM, Ben Scott wrote:

> On 3/9/06, Ted Roche <tedroche at tedroche.com> wrote:
>> Are there "commonly accepted guidelines?"
>
>   In a word, no.
>

Whew! (Dreading an "rtfm RFC-001, newbie!" response)


>   Best password guideline I've yet seen: "It should be easy for you to
> remember, and hard for others to guess."  Of course, for some reason,
> people seem think their name spelled backwards is "hard to guess".
> :-/

(frantically resetting all my bank passwords) <g>

> http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/privacy/password.mspx

Good stuff!

> -- Ben "drowssap" Scott

Oh, no! My other super-secret password!!!

<g> Thanks!

Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com