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Specific to the security of passwords: hashing, entropy, cracking, resets, lockouts, etc.
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Why are PIN codes usually of even length (4 or 6)?
In the financial world, Binary-Coded Decimal is a popular number-storage format, since most major world currencies are divided into 100 cents, and BCD allows these to be stored as exact decimal number …
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Does a password policy with a restriction of repeated characters increase security?
It doesn't do much to prevent the use of bad passwords
In Wikipedia's list of the 10,000 most common passwords, 3542 of them follow the rule of having no repeating characters. … So it wouldn't do anything to stop people from using passwords like 123456, 12345678, or qwerty.
True, it would prevent 6458 of these common passwords, including password, 111111, or 123123. …
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