1996-04-17 - Re: Spaces in passwords

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
To: Ben Rothke <ben.rothke@citicorp.com>
Message Hash: f662740fba113070374196af8f4d26d55b930c0cd43b88293b4f023f37f3ea61
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Reply To: <199604171502.AA17527@egate.citicorp.com>
UTC Datetime: 1996-04-17 19:52:24 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 03:52:24 +0800

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 03:52:24 +0800
To: Ben Rothke <ben.rothke@citicorp.com>
Subject: Re: Spaces in passwords
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Ben Rothke writes:
> Do spaces (ASCII 20) in passwords make them less secure?

Of course not. In a normal Unix password, adding spaces to the
password search space increases the search space, so it necessarily
makes the search harder.

.pm

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• 1996-04-17 (Thu, 18 Apr 1996 03:38:20 +0800) - Spaces in passwords - Ben Rothke <ben.rothke@citicorp.com>
  • 1996-04-17 (Thu, 18 Apr 1996 03:52:24 +0800) - Re: Spaces in passwords - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
    • 1996-04-18 (Fri, 19 Apr 1996 03:50:45 +0800) - Re: Spaces in passwords - “Jon Leonard” <jleonard@divcom.umop-ap.com>
      • 1996-04-19 (Fri, 19 Apr 1996 14:38:57 +0800) - Re: Spaces in passwords - Rabid Wombat <wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org>
        • 1996-04-19 (Fri, 19 Apr 1996 13:00:07 +0800) - Re: Spaces in passwords - “Jon Leonard” <jleonard@divcom.umop-ap.com>
      • 1996-04-22 (Tue, 23 Apr 1996 04:08:32 +0800) - Re: Spaces in passwords - Arley Carter <ac@hawk.twinds.com>