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  • The standard also avoids recommending any specific password requirements, but does mandate upper limits on password guessability and provides a detailed algorithm for approximating the required entropy with length and character classes.

    Light Blue Touchpaper Sören Preibusch 2010

  • Password policies enforce the minimum bar for password guessability, how often they may be changed, what they can't be, and so on.

    Jeremiah Grossman 2009

  • The problem with these secret code phrases, apart from all of the forgetability and guessability problems that have repeatedly been identified elsewhere, is that they are much less likely to be stored in a one-way hash.

    Planet Debian 2009

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