>On the Cisco Networking Academy sites, users are asked to use a password that:

>Is at least 8 characters long, and

>Has characters from at least 4 of the following categories: uppercase; lowercase; digits; other symbols.

>Now, this is fairly easy to check automatically. But in general, having a strong password is a tricky subject - the above might be considered merely a starting point.

Thanks Hilmar,
This is pretty close to what I am finding to be the case as well.
-Regards!