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[Christian]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 01:47:05PM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
> skribe wrote:
> > At 12:53 29/06/00, Christian wrote:
> > >Is eight a required length or just the maximum?
> 
> > Required length.  Whether this is the minimum or if they just take the
> > first 8 characters I'm not sure.  There seems to be no maximum length.
> 
> Often 31 or 32 characters. Significant entropy (but still not anything
> like the same order as, say, a 1024-bit key).

I don't think many people have 32 character passwords for anything.
Most of my passwords (passphrases) are fairly long but none are over
about 25 characters.