Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Good Regular Expression to Enforce Password Complexity in ASP.NET Applications

Regular expression to enforce password complexity in your applications:

^.*(?=.{10,})(?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[@#$%^&+=]).*$

The regular expression enforces the following rules:

  • Must be at least 10 characters
  • Must contain at least one one lower case letter, one upper case letter, one digit and one special character
  • Valid special characters (which are configurable) are - @#$%^&+=

Originally from Anil John's post

1 comment:

George Wen said...

[@#$%^&+=] can be replaced by ^[0-9a-zA-Z]

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