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Subject:	Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.general
Date:	Fri, 31 Mar 2000 07:22:05 GMT
Reply-To:	sgore@SPAMLESSsuperonline.com
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Larry Pieniazek wrote: <snip> > Then my birthday is a not very good password FOR ME because it's guessable from > context, my birthday is easily obtainable. But it's not a bad password at ALL > for Ed Jones, who has no explicit connection to me that anyone knows of, > because it's just a random string of dates and slashes. It has no meaning that > an attacker can guess and so is as strong as any other random string of numbers 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 just easy cakes. for a format of mm/dd/yy, there are only 36500 possibilities for a 100 year period, for example. Just a thought..:-) Selçuk

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		Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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

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