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password complexity

nounid 3515·updated May 9, 2026
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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 Systems1 citation · 1 machine-matched · observed 2026-09-01 under anchor/0.9/36451/2026-09-01
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

FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool, Baseline, May 20171 senseview framework →
§1
A set of rules that defines what set of characters and the amount of characters a password must contain.
NERC CIP-007-6 (System Security Management) v61 senseview framework →
§1
A set of rules that defines what set of characters and the amount of characters a password must contain.
NIST SP 800-171r31 senseview framework →
§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.
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§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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