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Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
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Date: 
Sun, 2 Apr 2000 04:22:03 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
  Are there any bad passwords which this fails to reject?

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



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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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