July 3, 2014
What is a "valid" character?
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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