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Ask HN: Being a password Nazi

1 pointsby hiddentacoabout 12 years ago
My pet Django project is coming along and I am at the stage of implementing User CRUD. I have already prevented the user from making their password the same as their username but I wanted to ask "what lengths do you suggest I goto to prevent users from creating stupid passwords?".

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tantalorabout 12 years ago
Tons of useful password validation rules here: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_policy" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_policy</a><p>I'd start with minimum length.