Passwords: does size matter, what characters?

[Ted Roche]

On Mar 10, 2006, at 11:06 AM, Randy Edwards wrote:
>    To solve this problem, just recommend to those users that they  
> change their
> password to:
>
>    P at ssword!

Ooooh! That's clever ;-)

At this point, this is a pretty informal site, with minimal  
requirements, but I think we've identified a good escalating scale of  
security: more characters, different types, punctuation, then up to  
checking against a dictionary lookup.