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Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
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Date: 
Sun, 2 Apr 2000 05:48:17 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
  potential weaknesses?  (Try to stump it!)

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) passes with 794%

Just some thoughts...

I found it interesting that the password "100%" comes out as -666% secure. So,
in other words, perfect = evil :)

Ben Roller



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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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