Password Changing Guidelines
For immediate issue:
Due to new security policies, the following guidelines have
been issued to assist in choosing new passwords. Please follow
them closely.
Passwords must conform to at least 21 of the following
attributes.
- Minimum length 8 characters
- Not in any dictionary.
- No word or phrase bearing any connection to the holder.
- Containing no characters in the ASCII character set.
- No characters typeable on a Sun type 5 keyboard
- No subset of one character or more must have appeared on
Usenet news, /dev/mem, rand(3), or the King James bible
(version 0.1alpha)
- Must be quantum theoretically secure, i.e. must
automatically change if observed (to protect against net
sniffing).
- Binary representation must not contain any of the
sequences 00 01 10 11, commonly known about in hacker
circles.
- Be provably different from all other passwords on the
internet.
- Not be representable in any human language or written
script.
- Colour passwords must use a minimum 32 bit pallette.
- Changed prior to every use.
- Resistant to revelation under threat of physical
violence.
- Contain tissue samples of at least 3 vital organs.
- Incontravertible by OJ Simpsons lawyers.
- Undecodable by virtue of application of 0 way hash
function.
- Odourless, silent, invisible, tasteless, weightless,
shapeless, lacking form and inert.
- Contain non-linear random S-boxes (without a backdoor).
- Self-escrowable to enable authorities to capture
kiddie-porn people and baddies but not the goodies
("but we'll only decode it with a court order,
honest").
- Not decryptable by exhaustive application of possible one
time pads.
Due to the severity of the restrictions, if the password is
entered incorrectly 3 times at login time, you will be asked if
you would like to pick a new one.
Please add guidelines to the above and adjust the minimum
conformation requirement, if applicable.