dear frontend programmers: please communicate any exceptions to the password requirements that you give me

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dear frontend programmers: please communicate any exceptions to the password requirements that you give me
I think there is some fear that revealing the full requirements up front will make it easier for casual script kiddies to write a password cracker... which if your set of password contrivances is such that this is a realistic concern then you should probably fix that