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Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Todd Lehman

(...) OK, here it is: (URL) summary: Type in a password and it tells you "pass" or "fail". First important question: Are there any bad passwords which this fails to reject? (If it rejects a seemingly good password, that's not necessarily a problem. (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !!

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Larry Pieniazek

(...) it got a "adequate". Sorry, I can't tell you what it is right now, though. Handy tool. Appreciate your making it available. ++Lar (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Scott Edward Sanburn

(...) stunning, but (...) Indeed. I got an excellent. : ) At least I got some decent passwords, if nothing else! Scott S. (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Todd Lehman

(...) A couple questions about its structure...I don't know if you can answer these but it seems like you could maybe: Without giving away any hints about what it was, why did you think it was risky? Did it contain a word? Did it contain a word (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Larry Pieniazek

(...) If I even say that I can't answer without giving a hint, that's a hint. Therefore: I can't answer without either giving or not giving away hints as to what it is. :-( ++Lar (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Todd Lehman

(...) Bummer -- that makes me suspect that it really truly is a horrible password then (as you surmised, and pointed out to your coworker). Yet it passed, which makes me nervous. Welp, if you someday are able to convince your coworker that this (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Larry Pieniazek

(...) I can say this much. It's not your tests. It's the context. Just like your tests give (hypothetically speaking) Lugnet123 a so so score because Lugnet isn't a word, but we know that lugnet isn't a very good root for a password to lugnet (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Todd Lehman

(...) OK, that helps...that's all I need to know...thanks! (...) Yup! (Although "Lugnet" is a word in Swedish, and it finds this. :) (...) Yup! I don't think I'll lose any sleep over it. --Todd (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Dan Boger

On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 12:28:05 GMT "Larry Pieniazek" <lar@voyager.net> wrote concerning 'Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)': (...) heh, it might be interesting to see a log of the passwords... though I'm sure that Todd (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Jennifer L. Boger

(...) dang... I'm terrible... though, i did find one that got a %507... :) thanks todd, i love this :) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Todd Lehman

(...) I really would love to see how the failure, but it's not work the risk to log them, just as it's not worth the risk to store raw, non-crypted passwords. In the end, this can never be perfect, and I'm sure it will end up accidentally passing (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Selçuk Göre

Wow, your wordlists are just nice. They even knows me and my wife..:-) Selçuk (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Todd Lehman

(...) Cool! And thanks for checking! --Todd (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Stephen F. Roberts

(...) ...Hmmm. I dug up old passwords from long dead servers (don't u hate it when u remember passwords, but not the login id? :-) ...But anyway, I tried '4Gxc5t'... it came back failed but its reasoning was strange... (try it urself :-) the 'slight (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Todd Lehman

(...) For one things, it's being a bit too harsh on numeric->alpha conversions like 4->A and 3->E...it should divide the intermediate results by 2 or something internally while computing the score after a transformaion like that. (...) They might be (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Frank Filz

I have a suggestion, you may want to test substitute things like "!" as a substitute for "l" or "i". Have you thought about vowels being dropped and K/c substitutions. I have a password which I would consider a worthless password the way you are (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Todd Lehman

(...) You mean, change from checking !->i to checking both !->i and !->l ? (It does currently check !->i -- did that not work for you in some instance?) (...) Good idea! (...) Lemme see about the above suggestions and then you can try it again later (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Frank Filz

(...) Ah, checked again, it didn't detect "7!" as a mapping for "li", but did detect "7i" as "li". It did reject both passwords though, but it had a lot fewer problems with the "7!" version, and the level changed from "worthless" to "weak". (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Todd Lehman

(...) Hmmm...not sure how to go about doing this... The way the checker achieves its speed is by looking up all substrings in its dictionary rather than passing every single diciontionary word over all substrings (which could take hours). So, for (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —David Schilling

(...) The way I've done something similar in the past is to create a larger dictionary: create a temp file with all words having their vowels removed, and do the c/k mutations too, if desired. Sort and remove duplicate entries. Finally, merge back (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Todd Lehman

(...) OK, so work it backwards, IOW. Cool. That sounds doable, and wouldn't even increase the time it took to evaluate pw's by more than the tiniest percent. (...) Well, if the dictionary grows from 2.7 million to 3.5 million entries, that's OK -- (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Richard Franks

(...) It allows: a1b2c3, but fails 1a2b3c, I thought it would (and probably does) check for numeric sequences? (...) It fails: LL-918 as worthless, but gives LL-928 an excellent :) Maybe you should add lots of LEGO set names and abbreviations? EG (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Dan Boger

On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:30:51 GMT "Richard Franks" <spontificus@yahoo.com> wrote concerning 'Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)': (...) heh, my lugnet password came up weak (FAIL)... my personal password came up ok (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Richard Franks

(...) You could make it stricter I think, send out an email warning with a code# to the member, and block access until they have replied. You could either use the code# to automate unblocking the account, or as part of a manual check. The code# (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Jacob Sparre Andersen

Todd: (...) Grasp your French MacKeyboard. Start with the 'a' (upper left letter), next you go one up to the '&', then you go one right to 'é', one down to 'z', one right to 'e', one up to '"' (double quote), one left to ''' (single quote), and (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Todd Lehman

(...) It catches the isomorphic QWERTY instance of this ("q12we34r") but I'd love to add xy-tables for Dvorak and non-US keyboards. Any data pointers? (...) That's a sneaky one! :) (...) Ooh -- I'd better make sure that it dislikes [0-9]+[xX][0-9]+ (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Dan Boger

(...) I could probably write one for hebrew keyboard, if you want... what format do you want it? :) Dan (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Todd Lehman

(...) Cool! OK, how about like this: ---...--- QWERTY 0 0 ~!@#$%^&*()_+ 0 0 `1234567890-= 1 1 QWERTYUIOP{}| 1 1 qwertyuiop[]\ 2 1 ASDFGHJKL:" 2 1 asdfghjkl;' 3 1 ZXCVBNM<>? 3 1 zxcvbnm,./ ---...--- TIA! --Todd (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Dan Boger

(...) hmmm... I guess I wasn't thinking when I posted... the english part of the herbew keyboard is exactly the same as the US one... The hebrew part of it, cannot really be expressed in ASCII, so I guess my offer was meaningless... sorry... Unless (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Todd Lehman

(...) Sure! If it's not the one at Oxford[1] University, pls. send URL! :) --Todd [1] I always think that looks like a hex number :) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Dan Boger

(...) ftp://sable.ox.ac.uk...wordlists/ :) Dan (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Todd Lehman

(...) Yup -- those are the ones from Oxford! Great lists!!! --Todd (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Shiri Dori

(...) LOL... that reminds me. My sis used to use a password for this game we had, she was just 4 and needed something she could remember, when all she knew to write was her name. But she didn't want something SO obvious (never mind that I helped her (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Todd Lehman

(...) OK, try that again now. Seeing that this site is LEGO-related, it's best to treat "x" and "X" as part of numeric stuff. In fact there are many other things besides 'x' and '=' which are numeric-related. :-o It now very much dislikes numerical (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Robert Farver

(...) You might want to add ^ for exponentiation. I just posted a list passwords that passed, including 4 variations of the Theory of Relativity. Rob - Rob Farver - mailto:rfarver@rcn.com (2 URLs) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Todd Lehman

(...) Ah yes! --Todd (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Selçuk Göre

By the way, for the special characters, it knows what "selcuk" is but doesn't know the "selçuk", which is actually the correct form. Do you want any Turkish wordlists? Selçuk (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Todd Lehman

(...) I haven't decoded the ASCII+127 yet on those...sorry. (...) I would love them, if you have any in their native ISO-8859-# encoding. --Todd (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Frank Filz

Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) [0-9]{4} . (...) to (...) longer (...) Waahh, now it hates one of my passwords... Hm, would you consider parametizing some of the things (or is the code something easily portable)? I'd like to check passwords (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Frank Filz

Frank Filz wrote in message ... (...) appropriate (...) Thought of another reason to allow parameters or options to the checker... Some systems have restrictions on length of password, some systems are not case sensitive, some systems may not allow (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Todd Lehman

(...) Down the road prolly... Gotta get this cut over ASAP and get the pages stuff finished up... Did it give you enough flexibility that you could find something it liked that you could use? (That's it's only real purpose, even if it happens to be (...) (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Larry Pieniazek

In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes: <pw checker, play away... some design notes> Played with it some more and I am not sure I totally trust it. It thinks MT-5561 is a GREAT password and LEGOSystem4558 is a really bad one. I'm happy to (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Robert Farver

(...) I've been playing with the 5 character passwords trying to see how high I can get. So far I've got a 156% (Good). Rob - Rob Farver - mailto:rfarver@rcn.com (2 URLs) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Larry Pieniazek

In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes: <pw checker, play away... some design notes> Oh, and can you post the rank order list somewhere on the page or something? That is, is Outstanding better or worse than Bravissimo! Thanks. ++Lar (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —James Brown

(...) Inconsistent results. It quite happily failed obvious stuff like "James1" or "Galliard" or "June15", but also missed some glaring ones. For example, it failed my Social Insurance number, but only because it was all from 1 keyboard row. It (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Todd Lehman

(...) Try again now. :) (...) It doesn't check for up/down/left/right keyboard shifting, no. (...) It doesn't check for cross-keyboard translations either, no. If I can get my hands on more keyboard xy tables, maybe I can check for these too. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Kevin Salm

(...) Okay, what is left?? I am wondering what kind of imagination I will need to generate an acceptable password. So far I have had no problem generating passwords that exceed 300% acceptance, but if the acceptable parameters continue to become (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Kevin Salm

I guess this can be fun. With a bit of tweaking here and there, I just generated a password which returned a 1269% approval rating. Anyone think they can top that? __Kevin Salm__ (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Ed Jones

(...) [snip] (...) Very interesting results. It seems to LOVE NASD and NYSE rule numbers: NASD15a-6 got a 252% What is the percentage range that will display? Its very hard to tell what is really good or bad by the percentages that display until you (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Ed Jones

(...) It likes the Uniform Commercial code even better: UCCart8-9 - 368% Excellent However, LUGNETTODD - gets a "terrible" :') (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Todd Lehman

(...) OK, try again now. It should dislike the "8-9" part enough to fail it. --Todd (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Todd Lehman

(...) OK, try again now. (BOY is this thing getting picky now about numbers and stuff. I hope it's not getting too restrictive. I'll have to stop tinkering at some point soon.) (...) Theoretically infinite in both directions. It's just a number, and (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Steve Bliss

(...) How about some of the following? They seem topically weak to me. lg*mnfg - 389% excellent shp@hm8354386 - 236% great m:trn6989 - 272% great Steve (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Scott Edward Sanburn

(...) I got a 421%, and then a -125%. Very interesting, i might have to switch some of my passwords here now! :) Scott S. (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Todd Lehman

(...) Not sure how to detect this...it isn't that terrible anyway, is it? (I can see that it comes from "lego*minifig" but it's still probably strong enough?) (...) Now gives a -1030%. (...) Now gives a 200%. If LEGO sets weren't an issue it would (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Richard Franks

It really likes: fnark-5- (345%) but hates: fnark-5-lego (-104%) Surely that's squiffy? Or is it based on the theory that being able to guess the 'lego' part will make the 'fnark-5-' more obvious? Richard (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Todd Lehman

(...) It's a side-effect of downrating fluffy portions even though they don't hurt. That is, if you have a wicked strong 8-character pw (call it "X" for short), then even though "Xlego" is no worse than "X", it takes points off for the fluffy part (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Larry Pieniazek

(...) I am starting to think that this password checker, in its current form (which I'd like to see left accessable as it IS useful) shouldn't actually block a password. It should tell me that "maybe this isn't a good choice" but it doesn't know (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Todd Lehman

(...) Yum, yum! :-s Well, ya gotta also figure that decreasing the safety margin from 100,000 to 1000 is one thing (bad -- and I don't think that's case here), but decreasing it from, say, eleventeen hundred quintrillion down to fifty-seven (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Selçuk Göre

Larry Pieniazek wrote: <snip> (...) I'm not a guru on the subject by any means, but while an attacker using wordlists and trying to crack a password with bruteforce or something like, I mean, by trial and error, I think any combination of dates are (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Larry Pieniazek

(...) from (...) ALL (...) that (...) numbers (...) This was a hypothetical example. Dates are not actually good passwords, but they're easy to use to demonstrate differences in context. my birthday is a bad password for me (one of the first few (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Alan Gerber

(...) I got p@$$\/\/0?oI through it as a 169. Mwhahahahahahaha! Alan (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Alan Gerber

(...) I meant to put in p@$$\/\/0roI in, but messed up. p@$$\/\/0roI got a 100% Alan (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Robert Farver

(...) Formulae: e=mc^2 - Great (266%) E=mc^2 - Excellent (303%) e=m*c^2 - Outstanding (556%) E=m*c^2 - Outstanding (594%) Keyboard runs: zdt7cgu9 - Outstanding (491%) zcbmadgj - Outstanding (462%) zfu0xgi- - Outstanding (529%) Software Titles: (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Christopher L. Weeks

Neat Todd! (...) It thinks <({})> is fine 250% and doesn't detect it as a pallindrome even though it is from a human point of view. You might want to add something that recognizes stuff encapsulated within open and close of the same type of (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Shiri Dori

(...) Ouch... it passes @%)^*$, which is a +shift version of my birthdate. Now that's a bad password! Just like it doesn't allow an only numeric sequence, or an only alphabetic sequence, it should not allow an only spec. character sequence. -Shiri (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Bram Lambrecht

(...) the ~ key (without pressing Shift) Here are the keyboard rows: 0 1 å/-À¶ØÖ¤µ¨¢ª 0 1 +ñòóôÙßõö÷øù 1 1 æäÓ¾ÐÑÕÃ¹ÂºÅ£ 1 1 ð"®±¸íê³Ï°,¥ 2 1 ¿Ë¡´àéèÒÊÇ§ 2 1 Ä¦¯â¬çëÉÈ«. 3 1 ¼»áÍÔ×·Áã½ 3 1 ()©ÎÚì?²ÌÆ Might want to take that into consideration... (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Ben Roller

(...) The checker should equate the following IMHO: |_ L + t < k ~ n \/ V () O or 0 "\/()+eF0rMe" (Vote for Me) for example gives a 788% success rate. "|_uGn3+" which is a complicated way to write "Lugnet" passes with 481% "|_eGoBr|<K5" (LegoBricks) (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Susan Hoover

(...) the wrong way. "Toy" as in "geek thing to play with" rather than as in "insignificant".) (...) Yes! Several passwords of the form "[l3G0]" (with brackets but without the quotation marks) get an adequate passing grade of ~149%. Try things like (...) (25 years ago, 12-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Susan Hoover

(...) Ugh. "[l3G()]" gets a 506% passing grade. (25 years ago, 12-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Matthew Miller

(...) 1. Can you use https for this? 2. How about a 'passwords submitted aren't logged' privacy statement? Why? 'Cause it's so cool I was instantly tempted into typing in old passwords that I no longer use, and was almost tempted into typing in (...) (25 years ago, 12-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Todd Lehman

(...) What's involved in setting up an https server? I remember reading once upon a time (it must've been about 2 years ago) that it could be kind of a mess, and that connections often took 1 second to authenticate. That would be a problem for (...) (25 years ago, 13-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Matthew Miller

(...) It's not too hard. But I forgot; you're using a web hosting place. (Pair?) Depending on what level of service you're paying for, you may already have ssl support. (Or conversely, it may not be an option.) (...) I've not noticed that bad of a (...) (25 years ago, 13-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)