Rules for
creating a password:
- The previous 6
passwords cannot be reused.
- A password must
contain at least fourteen characters (letters or numbers).
- A password must
contain at least five unique characters.
- A password must
contain at least one letter (A-Z or a-z) and at least one number (0-9).
- A password must
start with a letter or a number.
- A password cannot
start with any of the characters =+/[]:;|*,<>~\
and cannot contain any of the characters &@"'!*?^:$ or a space.
- A password cannot
be a person's name, an e-ID or any word found in the dictionary.
- A password cannot
be any of the following spelled backwards: a person's name, an e-ID
or any word found in the dictionary.
- A password cannot
have a repeating pattern (e.g. ababab or abcdefg).
- A password cannot
have a pattern like 'ccNNNNNc' where 'c' represents any character
and 'N' represents any number. (These are National Insurance numbers
and are widely known on the web.)
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