Strong Password Policy

¢Combines three  of the  four following character types:

—Uppercase  characters  (twenty-six   letters  A-Z)

—Lowercase  characters  (twenty-six   letters  a-z)

—Numbers  (ten  numbers  0-9)

—Special   characters  (thirty-two  printable  characters,   such  as  !,   $,   and  *)

¢You can calculate  the  key space  with the  following formula: C^N (CN)

—C i s t he  number of possible  characters used,  and N is the  length of the  password

 

¢For example ,  a six-character password using only lower case  letters (twenty-six possibilities) i s calculated as 26^6 (266),  or about  308 million possibilities

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¢If we are using all 94 printable character with six character password 946

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