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Discussion on: Do password rules impact security?

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Replies for: Requiring one of each special character doesn't narrow the attack space. You have to remember that the attacker doesn't know the password unless it...

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Dominik Weber Author •

But they do know the password rules. So they can eliminate all passwords that don't satisfy them, and not even check those.