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We've all been forced to do it: create a password with at least so many characters, so many numbers, so many special characters, and maybe an uppercase letter. Guess what? The guy who invented these standards nearly 15 years ago now admits that they're basically useless. He is also very sorry.
[The 2003 NIST guidance has been replaced by a new version of NIST Special Publication 800-63A, "Digital Identity Guidelines: Enrollment and Identity Proofing Requirements." which is basically a 180° reversal from the original. - Ed.]
Source: http://gizmodo.com/the-guy-who-invented-those-annoying-password-rules-now-1797643987
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(Score: 2) by curunir_wolf on Friday August 18 2017, @05:26PM
In the document, the recommendation is to REMOVE multiple sequential spaces so that there is only one space. So for systems that implement those recommendations you won't get a better password by adding multiple spaces between words...
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