Password Strength Checker – Flawed

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  dumpusername · Member · Feb 1, 2013 at 2:19 pm

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  Can you tell me why a password like aBdoKl is considered a good password, but aBdoKl24 is considered to easy for a user to guess? This is what I encountered when I tried to change my password. The examples listed are not my password. Thank you! Donald

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  catrymer · Member · Feb 1, 2013 at 8:23 pm

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  Hi there,

  We are constantly refining and updating our password checker to help people come up with the strongest passwords possible to protect their account. We recently made some changes to this end, and those might have resulted in the oddity you noticed. I passed the information along to our strong password gurus so they can investigate.

  You can read more about our password policies at:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/passwords/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/selecting-a-strong-password/

  Best!