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by bqe 2615 days ago
NIST 800-63b actually recommends against character class requirements[1] in favor of minimum length requirement and blacklists of breached passwords and other obvious passwords. Sites that require special characters are not following the current best practice.

[1]: https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html

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Isn‘t any obvious password already in the list of breached passwords? ;)