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It's too bad that I cannot find a bank that allows me to use pass-phrases of a usable length, much less any consistency between password requirements.
Password requirements
Wells Fargo
6-14
at least one letter and one number.
It cannot contain nine or more numbers.
Allows @, %, &, #
Chase
7-32
at least one letter and one number
Cannot include special characters (&, %, *, etc.)
Cannot be the same as any of the last five Passwords you've used
Cannot be the same as your User ID
American Express
8 - 20
at least one letter and one number
Allows %,&,_,?,#,=,-
Is not case sensitive!!
Pay Pal
8 - 40
includes both capital and lower case letters
Not a word you can find in the dictionary
Requires at least one 1-9,!,*,_,etc
Speed Hashing
Hashes are a bit like fingerprints for data. A given hash uniquely represents a file, or any arbitrary collection of data. At least in theory. This is a 128-bit MD5 hash you're looking at above, so it can represent at most 2128 unique items, or 340 trillion trillion trillion. In reality the...
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