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		16s on June 4, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Password Rules There needs to be an ISO standard for passwords. Things like this are ridiculous.

asciident on June 4, 2012 [–]

What I want to know is whether there is a subset of passwords that will be valid against almost all password rules. Like if I make a password that has 12 characters, one symbol and one number, will that fit in 99.9% of cases?

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