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From: wbe@bbn.com (Winston B Edmond)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Unix 8-character passwords
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Date: 14 Nov 88 17:09:20 GMT
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Chris Torek writes:
> ...  It is therefore obvious that there are no passwords
>that cannot be specified in at most eight characters, and any more are
>theoretically superfluous.   ...   Nonetheless, there are some ASCII
>characters that are inordinately difficult to type ...

CR, LF, and the line oriented input editing characters come to mind as
characters that are difficult to include in passwords.
 -WBE