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Subject:	Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.general
Date:	Thu, 30 Mar 2000 00:31:32 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote: > OK, I've done more research into human factors of passwords and have crufted > together[1] what I hope is a rather froody password checker. just a suggestion - have it also check against known personal info - like name, initials, birthday, etc... also Jenn pointed out you should check against obvious words, like lugnet, lego s@h, etc... :) I can't wait to try it out... Great job! Dan

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		Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
(...) Right! do all the really obvious checks first (the ones that would say things like "you know, using your first name may not be a good choice for a password") to save cycles. Well, let's have at it, I have some pw's I'd like an opinion on, and (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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		Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
(...) OK, I've done more research into human factors of passwords and have crufted together[1] what I hope is a rather froody password checker. First, it's got a _moby_ database of more than 2.7 million words, names, phrases, numbers, and other (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !

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