I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
If you set up your rules to say that you need to match at least n criteria, such as "> 1 special character", "> 0 uppercase", "total length > 20 characters", etc. then you can keep that magic number big. Explaining these rules to a user in a clear manner is more difficult though.
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If you set up your rules to say that you need to match at least
ncriteria, such as "> 1 special character", "> 0 uppercase", "total length > 20 characters", etc. then you can keep that magic number big. Explaining these rules to a user in a clear manner is more difficult though.