Password Characters

Guest · Posted: Mon May 06, 2013 12:17 pm Post subject: Password Characters

I've used apg within Linux to generate a random password which may use what some consider to be strange characters to generate passwords.

Can anyone tell me which characters appear to cause problems with Gixen so I can avoid them?

Thanks

mario · Site Admin Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 7267

As far as I can remember, $ sign is the worst. I would also avoid quotes of any kind (single, double).

Guest · Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 8:05 am Post subject:

I've taken those out as well as the $, would it be easier to get a list of punctuation that is known to be safe to use in passwords or perhaps the safe password length?

Sorry to be a pain, trying to maximise my security