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Password complexity for this community
I was very disappointed when I logged into this new community for the first time. The password is overly complex. Your own best practices recommend password length over password complexity. See th...
Thanks to everyone who reached out with feedback regarding password complexity and criteria and sharing valuable feedback as we’ve launched our new platform!
The team has worked quickly to address some of these requests and we’re rolling out the following updates around account passwords later today:- The maximum password length will be updated to 125 characters.
Criteria for password will be simplified as follows:- A minimum length of 15 characters
- Usernames should not be part of your password
- These criteria will be displayed to users creating a new password
We’ve consulted with the 1Password security team to make sure these requirements align with industry best practices.
Keep sharing your valuable feedback. We really appreciate it!
If only there was a way to have the computer remember the password for you, so you don't have to remember it yourself ...
Seriously though. I used 1Password's password generator to make up a new password for this forum. Five or more random words, with one or two of them capitalized, with random punctuation and digits between them. More than enough to satisfy the "rules" on the first try.
This is my normal routine ... if anything the problem I run into most often is sites that have a maximum password length which is too low. (I don't know how long this one was, probably in the low 50's?)
