Absurd Password Rules

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Password Length

• Minimum of 8 characters
• Maximum length of 40 characters

What It Must Contain

It must contain at least one character from three of the following lists:

• Uppercase Alphabetic (A-Z)

• Numbers (0-9)

• Lower case Alphabetic (a-z)

• These Special Characters are allowed:

  ! $ % & , ( ) - + - . / ; : < = > ? [ \ ] ^ _ { | } ~

• These are some of the characters that are not allowed:

  # " @ and the space character

NOTE: A password can be “simpler” (e.g. CalPolyLearnbyDoingisGreat) - with a minimum of 16 characters.

What It Cannot Contain

• Any words of 3 or more characters, including foreign words
• Any groups of 3 or more characters of the same character type
• Any names, person, places, or things found in a common dictionary
• Any of your names (first, middle, last), any current Cal Poly username
• Your previous password changed within the last year
• Repetitive characters (sequences)