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Re: Password length and complexity

From: Pete Hickey <pete () SHADOWS UOTTAWA CA>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 16:29:52 -0400

To me, the classic paper about this is the one by Morris & Thompson.

http://wolfram.schneider.org/bsd/7thEdManVol2/password/password.pdf

OK... it's a little out of date.  We have processors which are
faster than a PDP-11/70.... but it's still a good read.


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