Index: sources/view/settings/VSettings.cpp
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diff -u -r5c4fe87834faa59fcb7982e783c8ae3390ec2205 -r6ccee3fdf50b4717096745fb5b3f5ecc91b9cd1b
--- sources/view/settings/VSettings.cpp	(.../VSettings.cpp)	(revision 5c4fe87834faa59fcb7982e783c8ae3390ec2205)
+++ sources/view/settings/VSettings.cpp	(.../VSettings.cpp)	(revision 6ccee3fdf50b4717096745fb5b3f5ecc91b9cd1b)
@@ -254,16 +254,16 @@
  * \returns true if string pass conforms, false otherwise
  */
 bool View::VSettings::isPasswordValid(const QString &vPassword) {
-    int     minLen      = 8             ;
+    int     minLen      = 10            ; // in the SRS the max is required to be 12 which seems incorrect and I didn't set it her.
     QString pla         = "(?=.*[%1])"  ; // positive look ahead
     QString regSntnc    = "^%1$"        ; // regular expression sentence with has a start/end
     QString regUpper    = "A-Z"         ;
     QString regLower    = "a-z"         ;
     QString regDigit    = "0-9"         ;
-    QString regSymbl    = "@$!%*?&.,_-" ;
+    QString regSymbl    = "!@#$%^&*,.-_";
     QString rln         = "[%1]{%2,}"   ;
 
-    // "^(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[0-9])(?=.*[@$!%*?&])[A-Za-z0-9@$!%*?&]{8,}$"
+    // "^(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[0-9])(?=.*[@$!%*?&])[A-Za-z0-9@$!%*?&]{10,}$"
     QString regStr = regSntnc.arg(
         pla.arg(regUpper)   +
         pla.arg(regLower)   +