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Re: Article / Document about passwords vs. passphrases


From: Frank Knobbe <frank () knobbe us>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:20:09 -0600

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 14:01 +0200, Florian Rommel wrote:
I was told that Windows vista will not let you use (SPACE) in your  
password , can someone confirm or deny this?

Dunno, but I always recommend other punctuations instead of space for
long passphrases, for example "I-know-something-you-don't-know". No
space, no pain.... except while attempting to brute it perhaps...

Cheers,
Frank


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