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Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
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Date: 
Thu, 30 Mar 2000 17:32:25 GMT
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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 report that it liked d*l6zpv9wl%cl though. Right now I am trying
to come up with one that the CPU consumed is over 1 sec... :-)

++Lar



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  Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
 
(...) 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) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
 
(...) 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. (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !! 

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