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Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 30 Mar 2000 01:13:29 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Dan Boger writes:
> Todd Lehman wrote:
> > OK, I've done more research into human factors of passwords and have crufted
> > together[1] what I hope is a rather froody password checker.
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> just a suggestion - have it also check against known personal info -
> like name, initials, birthday, etc... also Jenn pointed out you should
> check against obvious words, like lugnet, lego s@h, etc... :)
Right! do all the really obvious checks first (the ones that would say things
like "you know, using your first name may not be a good choice for a password")
to save cycles.
Well, let's have at it, I have some pw's I'd like an opinion on, and believe it
or not, this actually is work related, someone set a password on a box that has
a dialin line that I think wasn't a very wise choice...
++Lar
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