Password Help

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Sun Apr 13 13:48:13 UTC 2008


Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net>  said:
>
> [password should contain numbers]
>
> > I never heard of that requirement - very strange. Actually I use a
> > password without numbers and it workes.
>
> Best practice says one should include numbers and both upper and lower
> case letters for a strong password.  Mine also uses symbols from the
> number row, is a mnemonic and part of it reads correctly only backward.

I don't deny that is good practice to use a non-trivial password, but the 
way Karl wrote it, it looked like a requirement not like a 
recommendation.


Nils




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