[wp-hackers] Default password length

[Callum Macdonald]

G'day,

Apologies if this has already been discussed, I've been off the list for 
a while and couldn't find it in my searching.

With the improvements to password hashing that are now in trunk and 
presumably will make it into core soon, is it also time to review the 
default password length?

I install a lot of WordPress sites, mainly for testing, and I notice 
that the passwords are predominantly numbers and only 6 digits long. As 
part of the password handling changes, can we push that out to 8 
characters and improve the random algorithm?

Cheers - Callum.