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Re:Japan pitches 'Society 5.0' to keep its edge in tech and ... by jhgb on Monday July 26, 2021 @11:47AM (#27960907)
> For example, 'foo2bar' would not be valid, nor would 'fo911baz'. 'fo23ba23' works.

But according to what you wrote, "foo2bar" would be OK? It seems to satisfy the 'no more than 3 consecutive numbers or letters' requirement.

Also, the obvious answer to this is RLE compressing your passwords. ;) foo2bar could be easily written as f1o221b1a1r1 to make it acceptable.

Re:Japan pitches 'Society 5.0' to keep its edge in tech and ... by alephnan on Monday July 26, 2021 @11:51AM (#27960969)
Sorry off-by-1 error.

I meant exclusive of 3, not inclusive. So no more than 2.