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18,509,302,100,000,000

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on 9/20/2005

. Tags: Open-Letters.

Dear Dreamhost tech support,

Hi. I was just creating a bunch of email accounts, and having dreamhost create the passwords for me. At one point, two passwords in a row were identical.

For an 8 character password using lower and upper alphas, numbers, and symbols, the chances of this happening should be something like 1/108^8, or 1/18,509,302,100,000,000.

Thank you,
John

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1 john
9/21/2005 at 12:59 am

Wow! OK, I’m letting the admins know about this, thanks. You can change
the password at
https://panel.dreamhost.com/index.cgi?tree=users.passwords&

Let us know if there is anything else we can do for you.

Thanks!
Andrea