Re^3: Please help with Regexp::Common

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Re^4: Please help with Regexp::Common by afoken (Chancellor) on Jan 19, 2017 at 18:38 UTC
Shouldn't you be generating passwords that do not contain any words? https://xkcd.com/936/ Alexander -- Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)	[reply]
Re^5: Please help with Regexp::Common by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on Jan 19, 2017 at 18:41 UTC
Fair point but I don't know of that many websites that generate a password longer than 8 characters.	[reply]
Re^6: Please help with Regexp::Common by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Jan 19, 2017 at 19:14 UTC
In fact, I had this argument at work when we did a security audit. Previous dev wanted to cap passwords at 8 and exclude non-ASCII. I wanted at least 60 and allow anything UTF-8 covered. I lost the argument. I had to wait for him to quit to fix it. Which was in fact the second time. I had fixed it. He put it down where he wanted it because he was extending stuff and he didn’t understand UTF-8 well enough. Then I put it back. o_0	[reply]
Re^4: Please help with Regexp::Common by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Jan 19, 2017 at 18:30 UTC
... passwords that do not contain any* words ...* Isn't that a bit like the CRM 114 Discriminator strategic communications security system, which for absolute top security was designed not to receive any messages...? Give a man a fish: `<%-{-{-{-<`	[reply] [d/l]