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Old 08-05-2004, 08:30 AM  
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Originally posted by William-Xfactor
If your billing company allows random passwords to be assigned to your customers, do it!
And use a good length, I recommend 15 char. That will stop passwords from being brute-forced. Also by having a good length ?say 15 char? even if they exploit your server or a script to locate your password file they will be flat out trying to decrypt it.
I wouldn't do that. That's a pain in the ass for the customers. The simplest solution is a form login page like this one:

http://www.polishmyhelmet.com/members/
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