# Min Password Length vs Block Common Passwords **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/min-password-length-vs-block-common-passwords/58207 **Category:** Feature **Created:** [March 2, 2017, 4:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/min-password-length-vs-block-common-passwords/58207 "2017-03-02T04:50:32Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror) #### Post date: [March 2, 2017, 4:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/min-password-length-vs-block-common-passwords/58207/2 "2017-03-02T04:58:10Z")
8 character passwords are perilously close to no password at all these days. > **[Your Password is Too Damn Short](https://blog.codinghorror.com/your-password-is-too-damn-short/)** > > 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: > > \* No matter what you tell them, users will always... This is one of those defaults I strongly advise against changing, at least in the smaller direction. It is also quite telling how small the common password list is when you filter to 10 chars and higher. There is a reason for this… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/min-password-length-vs-block-common-passwords/58207)._