# Account password restrictions

When registering for a Stripe account or changing your password, your password cannot be:
* Fewer than 10 characters
* An English dictionary word
* A common name or surname
* A statistically common password
* A chain of repeated characters or numbers, i.e., “99999999”
* A sequence of characters or numbers, i.e., “abcdefgh” or “01234567”
* A date, i.e., “12.23.1996”
## Additional Information
* These requirements are only the fundamentals and satisfying them does not guarantee that your password is strong.