Re: Article / Document about passwords vs. passphrases

["Kurt Buff" <kurt.buff () gmail com>]

On 10/30/06, Florian Rommel <frommel () gmail com> wrote:
<snip>
> I was told that Windows vista will not let you use (SPACE) in your
> password , can someone confirm or deny this?

This seems quite absurd. I've been using spaces in my passwords for
years on Windows, up to and including Win2k3 - for MSFT to degrade
password functionality in this away would be madness far surpassing
their norm.

> also someone said that
> only the most recent version of linux allow you to have long
> passwords, according to my memory, this has worked already for a
> looong time (i remember i used a long password quite a few years back
> already) so any info on that would be good too. Any pointer as to how
> to improve this article would be excellent since quite a few of the
> people I know use my stuff as reference and I wouldnt like to be
> "that" wrong :)

Can't speak to Linux, but my FreeBSD installations have, for the 5+
years I've been using them, have allowed me passwords as long as I
wanted - certainly longer than 8 characters.

Kurt

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