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If you operate a site and wish to encourage your users to use non dictionary passwords which are not shared across multiple sites then we welcome you linking to passwordsheet.com and can provide buttons and other tools.
We also encourage the following guidelines:
- Support passwords of at least eight characters
- Insist on a compbination of upper case, lower case and numbers.
- Do not insist on the use of symbols as it reduces the range of characters available for that character and wastes the users tollerence of typing characters.
- In addition to a-z,A-Z,0-9 also permit the following wide range of 21 optional symbols with appropriate escaping within your processing: *()=+[]!"#$%@&-_.{}~^
- After three incorrect password guesses the site should display a captcha or refuse for at least fifteen minutes or a password reset, to validate further passwords after five failed attempts.
- Treat the passwords as case sensitive
- Offer users a reset option mentioning the frequency of replacing passwords when passwords are over 90 days old
Using the sheet does not require any of the above but it does make for more consistent rules across sites, particularly by not insisting on symbols while permitting them.
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