AD and enforced password policies
Lyndon Nerenberg
lyndon at orthanc.ca
Tue Jan 3 02:10:33 UTC 2012
> I just went through some calculations for a (government) site that has the
> following rules:
[...]
> Under the plausible assumption that very many people will start with a string
> of digits, continue with a string of lower-case letters to reach seven characters,
> and then add a period, there are only ~5,000,000,000 choices. That's not many at
> all -- but the rules look just fine...
1234;lkj rolls off the fingers quite nicely, don't you think?
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