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<title>Day 11 - Advent of Code 2015</title>
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<article class="day-desc"><h2>--- Day 11: Corporate Policy ---</h2><p>Santa's previous password expired, and he needs help choosing a new one.</p>
<p>To help him remember his new password after the old one expires, Santa has devised a method of coming up with a password based on the previous one. Corporate policy dictates that passwords must be exactly eight lowercase letters (for security reasons), so he finds his new password by <em>incrementing</em> his old password string repeatedly until it is valid.</p>
<p>Incrementing is just like counting with numbers: <code>xx</code>, <code>xy</code>, <code>xz</code>, <code>ya</code>, <code>yb</code>, and so on. Increase the rightmost letter one step; if it was <code>z</code>, it wraps around to <code>a</code>, and repeat with the next letter to the left until one doesn't wrap around.</p>
<p>Unfortunately for Santa, a new Security-Elf recently started, and he has imposed some additional password requirements:</p>
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<li>Passwords must include one increasing straight of at least three letters, like <code>abc</code>, <code>bcd</code>, <code>cde</code>, and so on, up to <code>xyz</code>. They cannot skip letters; <code>abd</code> doesn't count.</li>
<li>Passwords may not contain the letters <code>i</code>, <code>o</code>, or <code>l</code>, as these letters can be mistaken for other characters and are therefore confusing.</li>
<li>Passwords must contain at least two different, non-overlapping pairs of letters, like <code>aa</code>, <code>bb</code>, or <code>zz</code>.</li>
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<p>For example:</p>
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<li><code>hijklmmn</code> meets the first requirement (because it contains the straight <code>hij</code>) but fails the second requirement requirement (because it contains <code>i</code> and <code>l</code>).</li>
<li><code>abbceffg</code> meets the third requirement (because it repeats <code>bb</code> and <code>ff</code>) but fails the first requirement.</li>
<li><code>abbcegjk</code> fails the third requirement, because it only has one double letter (<code>bb</code>).</li>
<li>The next password after <code>abcdefgh</code> is <code>abcdffaa</code>.</li>
<li>The next password after <code>ghijklmn</code> is <code>ghjaabcc</code>, because you eventually skip all the passwords that start with <code>ghi...</code>, since <code>i</code> is not allowed.</li>
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<p>Given Santa's current password (your puzzle input), what should his <em>next password</em> be?</p>
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<p>Your puzzle answer was <code>hepxxyzz</code>.</p><article class="day-desc"><h2 id="part2">--- Part Two ---</h2><p>Santa's password <span title="The corporate policy says your password expires after 12 seconds. For security.">expired again</span>. What's the next one?</p>
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<p>Your puzzle answer was <code>heqaabcc</code>.</p><p class="day-success">Both parts of this puzzle are complete! They provide two gold stars: **</p>
<p>At this point, you should <a href="/2015">return to your Advent calendar</a> and try another puzzle.</p>
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