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Password Validator 2.2.0 Released

Password Validator 2.2.0 Released

Version 2.2.0 of my PHP Password Validator [https://www.garybell.co.uk/projects/] has been released. There is a fix to replace the supported PHP versions and Packagist version badges within the README.md file with just images rather than link anywhere. The big change for this release,

Everything you know (about security) is (probably) wrong!

Everything you know (about security) is (probably) wrong!

I read a post on dev.to [https://dev.to/wagslane/how-to-correctly-validate-passwords-most-websites-do-it-wrong-l46] about how most websites validate passwords incorrectly. The premise of it centres on this well known strip on xkcd [https://xkcd.com/936/]. Basically things which look like complicated passwords, in this case Tr0ub4dor&3 , aren'