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Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 00:02:28 +0200
From: "e@...tmx.net" <e@...tmx.net>
To: passwords@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: GMOs And Passwords

On 08/24/2016 10:50 PM, Per Thorsheim wrote:
> Den 24.08.2016 22.40, skrev e@...tmx.net:
>
>> in this case i can suggest you a policy which is a function of the
>> password length: apply (policy(length(password)) to password)
>> i.e. to shorter passwords you apply stronger policies, which relax with
>> the length, and may for certain length threshold be reduced to empty
>> policy.
>
> That doesn't reduce to an empty policy. That's more like a
> length=complexity policy.

i mean the "policy" as a function that takes length and returns a 
policy. this returned value may be an "empty policy" for certain length.
whereas for the entire range it is not empty.

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