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Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 30 Mar 2000 15:44:39 GMT
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wubwub@wildlink.comSAYNOTOSPAM
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"Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> > [...]
> > I'll put this password thingy up on a webpage for people to try out, maybe
> > later tonight. If we can all agree that it does a good job of weeding out
> > bad passwords, then I'll put it into place for where you can actually change
> > your own password.
>
> OK, here it is:
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> http://www.lugnet.com/people/members/pwsa/
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>
...Hmmm. I dug up old passwords from long dead servers (don't u hate it when u remember
passwords, but not the login id? :-)
...But anyway, I tried '4Gxc5t'... it came back failed but its reasoning was strange...
(try it urself :-) the 'slight risk' ones just baffle me... what's a slight risk about the
fragment 'xc'? I can see a slight risk for 'cst' (central standard time?), but 'agx'?
...Most of the other ones I knew were weak came back failed, but it fequently chided me
for 'slight risk' fragments that dont seem to make sense. The above was the only one that
I would have suspected to get at least an 'adequate' :-/
...I noticed as I tinkered with some of the weak ones and watched the changing reasoning,
perhaps an additional feature would be to list 'good features' of the password. such as
saying "Good: 8 characters" or once it complained that 'unique charactes <75%' perhaps say
'good: >75% unique characters'... by watching the positive feedback, it may be possible to
'tune' bad passwords easier.
...you can go back to ignoring me now...
wubwub
stephen f roberts
wamalug guy (http://wamalug.org)
wildlink.com
lugnet #160
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