Is there a valid case for an empty password?

Weijun Wang weijun.wang at oracle.com
Thu Oct 11 23:25:53 EDT 2018


I checked the history, sorry for blaming Windows. It was requested by an embedded server vendor.

> On Oct 12, 2018, at 11:19 AM, Weijun Wang <weijun.wang at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> We are planning to disallow empty passwords for PBKDF2 in JDK. However, some years ago I did receive a bug report to support empty passwords on Windows 200x. Is it really a valid password?
> 
> Thanks
> Max
> 




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