Your Password

Password Creation Guide

• Password Rules:
  • Minimum length: 10 characters
  • Maximum length: 80 characters
  • May contain Leet Speak (i.e. L33t $peak)
  • May contain short dictionary words (6 characters or less)
  • NOTE: New passwords must be different than the 4 previous passwords
• Must contain characters from three of the four Character Sets:
  • Numbers: 0-9
  • Lower Case Letters: a-z
  • Upper Case Letters:A-Z
  • Special Characters: !@#$%^&*().?
    • Other keyboard characters may be used: Angle brackets, quotation marks and the <space> are among them, however the behaviour of these items can be erratic: They should be used with caution. The space can be helpful when creating memorable phrases but should never be the first or last character.
• Leet Speak:
  • Substituting numbers or special characters for letters in a word as in: L33t $peak
  • Learn more about Leet Speak
• Caution!
  • No: Dictionary words 7 characters or longer (spelled forwards or in reverse i.e. "esrever")
  • No: User Names, UserID, NID or forms of these may be used in the password
  • No: Common keyboard sequences such as qwerty, 123123, abcabc, etc
  • Do Not: Reuse recent passwords. For NID and FID holders, a non-decryptable history of the last 4 changes will be kept for comparison beginning May 18, 2011.
• Learn more about passwords