Been down this road before. Some organizations make up silly rules for passwords like they must have two capital letters, two lower case letters, two numbers and two punctuation marks and be between 8 and 14 characters long.
Such rules make it almost impossible to come up with a memorable password.
Why sane IT person would limit the length of a password is beyond my comprehension. It just makes life easier for the hackers.
One of my retired passwords is based on the fact that Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in 1927: baseball:Ruth60HR@1927. Of course that password won’t work for those organizations that prohibit punctuation in passwords (Do you hear me AT&T?)
I used that password years ago and I still remember it. My current work password is 23 characters long. It is easy to remember albeit a bit difficult to type.
Been down this road before. Some organizations make up silly rules for passwords like they must have two capital letters, two lower case letters, two numbers and two punctuation marks and be between 8 and 14 characters long.
Such rules make it almost impossible to come up with a memorable password.
Why sane IT person would limit the length of a password is beyond my comprehension. It just makes life easier for the hackers.
One of my retired passwords is based on the fact that Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in 1927: baseball:Ruth60HR@1927. Of course that password won’t work for those organizations that prohibit punctuation in passwords (Do you hear me AT&T?)
I used that password years ago and I still remember it. My current work password is 23 characters long. It is easy to remember albeit a bit difficult to type.