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Re: Password complexity - improvement Aug 24 2007 09:53PM
Chris Barber (cmbarber gmail com)
You may have reduced the number of usable character combinations in a
fixed character password. But if I simply add the requirement of
having all 4 character types and leave the upper limit open, I have
just increased the keyspace astronomically.

Example
with password length fixed at 7 characters ...

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