Discussions of password length may seem rather passe these days. Internal and external auditors have long suggested the use of lengthy passwords to help fortify the primary authentication mechanism in today's Operating System. Crypto details aside, it would make sense that longer may be better, and the auditors agreed. Their older recommendations of six character passwords have been updated to reflect new times - eight is now the standard recommendation. In some cases, you may hear cause for an even longer password, as long as users won't be tempted to write it down. Unfortunately, the 6/8+ recommendation was pushed forth prior to the rise in popularity of LanMan, OS/2 and Windows NT.
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