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Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
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Sun, 2 Apr 2000 03:55:57 GMT
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Neat Todd!

In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:

OK, here it is:

  http://www.lugnet.com/people/members/pwsa/

First important question:

  Are there any bad passwords which this fails to reject?

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
containing symbols as being at least slightly weak.

Anyone out there targeting specific numbers?  How hard is it to get exactly 0%
I've only managed it once, but I keep trying.

Chris



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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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