Wise Owl Password Policy

Wise Owl uses the following password policy for accounts stored in Appliances themselves. If you are using an external directory system such as Windows Active Directory, you may be subject to different password requirements.

• Minimum length of 8 characters (configurable per-Appliance).
• Require one upper, lower and number character (may be disabled per-Appliance).
• Any character is allowed. Including spaces, punctuation, HTML, non-English letters / numbers, characters not on standard keyboards, and any Unicode character point.
• Maximum length is 256 characters. This is to allow for longer passphrases but not overload system resources.
• All passwords are checked against a blacklist stored on Wise Owl Legal servers. This blacklist contains several million poor passwords and passwords leaked from public websites.
• Leading and trailing spaces are removed as some external programs may strip them.
• No expiry dates are enforced.