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Characteristics of strong passwords
■ Passwords must not contain the user’s account
name or parts of the user’s full name that exceed
two consecutive characters.
■ Passwords must be at least eight characters in
length.
■ Passwords must contain characters from at least
three of the following four categories:
– English uppercase alphabetic characters
(A through Z)
– English lowercase alphabetic characters
(a through z)
– Numeric characters (0 through 9)
– Non-alphabetic characters (for example, !, $, #, %)
Examples of weak passwords
■ uhxwze11 contains no upper case letter.
■ UHXW13SF contains no lower case letter.
■ uxxxxx7F contains the same character more than
four times.
■ x12useridF contains a substring of the user ID
longer than four characters.