password complexity
nounid
3515·updated May 9, 2026verified
A set of rules that defines what set of characters and the amount of characters a password must contain.
MWE
Attested in
NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems
03.05.12.f ¶ 1
Classifications
Entity Type
Credential95%rule-basedr:entity.credential.password.v1
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- plural
- password complexities
- possessive
- password complexity's
- pluralpossessive
- password complexities'
Framework definitions
- §1
- A set of rules that defines what set of characters and the amount of characters a password must contain.
- §1
- A set of rules that defines what set of characters and the amount of characters a password must contain.
- §1 · attested_usage_pack_match
- No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 1 citation in that document; a definition is pending curation.Increment 2: attested in 800-171r3 without a glossary definition.
- §1 · legacy_primary
- A set of rules that defines what set of characters and the amount of characters a password must contain.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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