Closed Bug 846882 Opened 12 years ago Closed 11 years ago

Thunderbird should prevent the use of too simple master password

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Security, defect)

17 Branch
x86_64
Windows 7
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: info, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/24.0.1312.57 Safari/537.17 Steps to reproduce: try using a simple password Actual results: let me save a password of 1 characters very simple "1" Expected results: thunderbird should say: the password is very simple and you can use less than 6 characters
also let me save a space for the password
Group: core-security
Component: Untriaged → Security
I am not sure that we should do this, but I am updating the title which was really too generic
Summary: master password → Thunderbird should prevent the use of too simple master password
Password quality mandates have tended to create more problems than they solve.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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