pragmatist
Patrick Joyce

July 3, 2014

What is a "valid" character?

Poor Change Password User Experience

If you’re going to limit the characters that can be used in a password, don’t make your users guess what characters are “valid.”

I was particulalry amused that the “%” character simultaneously fulfills the “1 symbol or number” requirement and violates the “valid characters” requirement.

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