Re: Password Expatriation notification

[Eric Case <eric () ERICCASE COM>]

What do you count a space as, it is a special character or does it not count?

The University of Arizona groups character as upper case, lower case, numbers 
and everything else.
-Eric



Eric Case, CISSP
eric (at) ericcase (dot) com
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(520) 344-CISO (2476)



> -----Original Message-----
> From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
> [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Alex Keller
> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 12:05 PM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Password Expatriation notification
>
> re: I've watched people who have trouble typing try to enter passwords
> and pass-phrases. When every character takes 5 seconds to type, a 9
> character password is much easier than a 16 character pass-phrase.
>
> however, it is often easier for people to type passphrases (even poor
> typists) becuase the keystrokes are familiar. i am not a great typist
> and i can type "Should we go back to the moon?" much faster than
> "vf$1048Za".
>
> we are moving to passpharses (where possible) for administrative
> accounts. we make sure the passphrase is sufficiently long, not based on
> a common slogan, includes both upper and lower case letters, at least
> one special character, and a string of numbers: "#Our cabin in cozy in
> the thunder!1055". it is a pain at first, but once you can commit it to
> muscle memory it gets a lot faster. either that or just cut and paste
> out of Keypass or alike.
>
> best,
> alex
>
> --
> Alex Keller
> Systems Administrator
> Academic Technology, San Francisco State University
> Office: Burk Hall 153 Phone: (415)338-6117 Email: alkeller () sfsu edu

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