Selecting a passphrase

Passphrase requirements

• Novell (current faculty, staff, and students): must be a minimum of 15 characters long
• KnightVision: must be a minimum of 10 characters long
• must use characters from two or more of the following groups:
• Lowercase characters
• Uppercase characters
• Number characters
• Symbol characters and Spaces
• must include at least 4 different characters
• may not repeat the same character 3 times sequentially
• MAY NEVER BE REUSED
• will expire in 365 days - you will receive an email before your Novell and KnightVision passphrases expire so you have time to change them.

How to select a good passphrase

When selecting a passphrase think of words that you can put together that make sense to you but would be difficult for someone else to figure out. There are several ways to do this.

Here are a few suggestions:

Phone number
Don't use your real phone number or another number someone might guess. Make something up like:

• 1-800-don'tcallme
• (616)i'mnothome

Rhyming words

• Fred likes bread
• Six.blue.bricks
• Jillsliddownthehill

Titles

• Dr. Getwell Soon
• Professor for life

URL

• www.I like summer.com
• www.gotochurch.org

Other examples

• Go directly->home
• summer+fun=vacation

Don't use a common quotation or other common phrase.

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