[Info-vax] Enhanced Password Management

[osuvman50 at gmail.com]

On Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 3:36:39 PM UTC-4, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Just got this from VSI:
> 
> "Thank you to those of you who downloaded and tested the
> Enhanced Password Management software."
> 
> And yes, a month ago I got the notice that it was available.
> 
> Anyone here that was part of the field test?
> 
> Jan-Erik
> 
> 
> FWIW, here are the settings that this kit made possible:
> 
> The minimum number of upper-case characters in a password
> The minimum number of lower-case characters in a password
> The minimum number of special characters in a password
> The minimum number of numbers in a password
> The minimum number of categories that must be included in a password
> (categories include upper-case characters, lower-case characters,
> special characters, and numbers)
> The minimum percentage by which a password must be changed

Mostly those rules encourage people to write down their passwords. I'd like to see an option that reduces the minimum number of categories by one for every character over the minimum length, so you encourage longer passwords instead.