Password strength

To protect each certificate’s private key you must supply a private key password. When backing up certificate private keys by exporting certificates, you may use an additional encryption password. (The default encryption password is the same as the private key password.) To prevent unauthorized access, your passwords need to be strong.

A strong platform or station password:

Has 10 or more characters.
Includes letters, punctuation, symbols, and numbers.
Is unique for each set of credentials.
CAUTION: Do not reuse passwords.
Avoids dictionary words in any language, words spelled backwards or words that use common misspellings and abbreviations, sequences or repeated characters, personal information such as your birthday, driver’s license, passport number, etc.

These precautions were adapted from information at microsoft.com, which provides a secure password checker you can use to test the strength of any password. Niagara 4 allows you to control password strength for user authentication. The password strength configuration for user authentication does not apply to certificate passwords.

Password strength

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