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by brk 1418 days ago
My favorite was "password must be a palindrome".
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Mine is "Password must contain 'Password must contain'".
But how does the palindrome rule work with “password must start with ‘cat’” and “password must end with ‘dog’”? It seems impossible to satisfy these three.

Having the conditions contradict each other serves as a proof that it’s impossible to create a password; I thought this information shouldn’t be revealed to the user.

Looks like there is already an issue about it: https://github.com/troyhunt/password-purgatory-api/issues/45