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Itaxpica
on Dec 23, 2012
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Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters
This is clearly a brilliant security feature - a brute-force attack on a password of that length would be all but impossible! Bravo, Microsoft!
brudgers
on Dec 23, 2012
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It applies to Windows 2000 Server and related products. The fix is included in SP1.
arxanas
on Dec 23, 2012
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I rather think the opposite — every password would comprise of 18770 of the same character.
Turing_Machine
on Dec 23, 2012
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Ah, but it can't repeat any of the previous 30,689 passwords. Better break out the Unicode chart...
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