how long should a password be?

[Noiano]

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Matt Kinni wrote:
> Everyone says it should be as long as possible, but there comes a point
> where it's just impossible to remember anything longer than 20
> characters.  What do you think?

Well IMHO you should merge together some significant (just
for you!) events, hard to forget, and turn them into a password.
It should be
- - longer >= 25 IMHO
- - nonsense in any language to avoid dictionary attack
- - contain special character such as !?$£()...

Noiano
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