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in reply to Re: Password Generation and Module Multiplication
in thread Password Generation and Module Multiplication

Brute force attacks against a single password, granted.

But without complexity rules, a letter-only brute force attack or rainbow table attack against a list of hashed passwords will too easily pick off the lazy users. I'd assume the complexity rules are really designed to protect against this case.

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