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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!
Count your blessings. I signed up to a system today that required 12 or more characters, and what read like, "three each of upper case, lower case, numerals, and special characters." Three each?! Turned out it was "Engrish." One each was sufficient. But I still don't like sites that impose such complexity when it's a long string. Three of the four character types is sufficiently rigid, for 1998.
