# Is there a way to make the password requirements more simple?

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**Created:** [2016 年 8 月 18 日午後 1:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-make-the-password-requirements-more-simple/48808 "2016-08-18T13:57:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [2016 年 8 月 18 日午後 2:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-make-the-password-requirements-more-simple/48808/4 "2016-08-18T14:28:03Z")

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If your site will be connected to the internet, then 6 characters is almost certainly not enough. If it requires registration,so crackers do not know usernames, that could reduce the need for complexity, but, it’s still not a good idea.

See, for example

> **[Your Password is Too Damn Short](https://blog.codinghorror.com/your-password-is-too-damn-short/)**
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> I’m a little tired of writing about passwords. But like taxes, email, and pinkeye, they’re not going away any time soon. Here’s what I know to be true, and backed up by plenty of empirical data:
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> \* No matter what you tell them, users will always...

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