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    Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Todd Lehman
   (...) You mean, change from checking !->i to checking both !->i and !->l ? (It does currently check !->i -- did that not work for you in some instance?) (...) Good idea! (...) Lemme see about the above suggestions and then you can try it again later (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
   
        Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Frank Filz
     (...) Ah, checked again, it didn't detect "7!" as a mapping for "li", but did detect "7i" as "li". It did reject both passwords though, but it had a lot fewer problems with the "7!" version, and the level changed from "worthless" to "weak". (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
   
        Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Todd Lehman
   (...) Hmmm...not sure how to go about doing this... The way the checker achieves its speed is by looking up all substrings in its dictionary rather than passing every single diciontionary word over all substrings (which could take hours). So, for (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) ! 
   
        Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —David Schilling
   (...) The way I've done something similar in the past is to create a larger dictionary: create a temp file with all words having their vowels removed, and do the c/k mutations too, if desired. Sort and remove duplicate entries. Finally, merge back (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
   
        Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating) —Todd Lehman
   (...) OK, so work it backwards, IOW. Cool. That sounds doable, and wouldn't even increase the time it took to evaluate pw's by more than the tiniest percent. (...) Well, if the dictionary grows from 2.7 million to 3.5 million entries, that's OK -- (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 

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