General Password Construction Guidelines Sample Clauses

General Password Construction Guidelines o The password CANNOT contain the user’s account name o The password must be a minimum of 11 characters including: • Contain both upper- and lower-case characters (e.g., a-z, A-Z) • Have digits and punctuation characters as well as letters, e.g., 0-9, !@#$%^&*()_+|~- =\`{}[]:”;’<>?,./) • Are not based on personal information (names of family, etc.)

General Password Construction Guidelines. Passwords are used for various purposes at University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Some of the more common uses include: user level accounts, web accounts, email accounts, screen saver protection, voicemail password, and local router logins. Since very few systems have support for one-time tokens (i.e., dynamic passwords which are only used once), everyone should be aware of how to select strong passwords. Poor, weak passwords have the following characteristics:  The password contains less than eight characters  The password is a word found in a dictionary (English or foreign)  The password is a common usage word such as: o Names of family, pets, friends, co-workers, fantasy characters, etc. o Computer terms and names, commands, sites, companies, hardware, software. o The words "University of Louisiana at Lafayette", "sanjose", "sanfran" or any derivation. o Birthdays and other personal information such as addresses and phone numbers. o Word or number patterns like aaabbb, qwerty, zyxwvuts, 123321, etc. o Any of the above spelled backwards. o Any of the above preceded or followed by a digit (e.g., secret1, 1secret) Strong passwords have the following characteristics:  Contain both upper and lower case characters (e.g., a-z, A-Z)  Have digits and punctuation characters as well as letters e.g., 0-9, !@#$%^&*()_+|~- =\`{}[]:";'<>?,./)  Are at least eight alphanumeric characters long.  Are not a word in any language, slang, dialect, jargon, etc.  Are not based on personal information, names of family, etc.  Passwords should never be written down or stored on-line. Try to create passwords that can be easily remembered. One way to do this is create a password based on a song title, affirmation, or other phrase. For example, the phrase might be: "This May Be One Way To Remember" and the password could be: "TmB1w2R!" or "Tmb1W>r~" or some other variation. NOTE: Do not use either of these examples as passwords!