Largest Study of its Kind Shows Outdated Password Practices are Widespread | College of Computing
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“More than half of the websites in the study accepted passwords with six characters or less, with 75% failing to require the recommended eight-character minimum. Around 12% of had no length requirements, and 30% did not support spaces or special characters.”

  • meseek #2982@lemmy.ca
    3·
    1 year ago

    I was under the impression that even just letters (no case) would take a lifetimes to brute force if you exceeded 15 characters. And that drops to just 11 if you mix cases, numbers and special characters.