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I recall a talk at passwordcon by Per Thorsheim where he pointed out that not only does the password: "Password2022" meet most "strict" criteria (three different character classes, longer than eight characters) - and -it's amenable to yearly demands for changing (increase the year) - but in large organizations you're actually very likely to find a user or two with this password (as seen in audits that ran simple brute force against the user directory).

PS: in the rare case it's not "secure" enough, add an exclamation point: "Password2022!"



One good complexity check would be “contains a single dictionary word as the main content.” I don’t know if library does it, though.


Why is this a good complexity check?


Because dictionary attacks are easy on single words + small mutations, like some capitalizations and adding 1-2 digits.




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