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Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
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Thu, 30 Mar 2000 18:42:19 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> 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.
Inconsistent results. It quite happily failed obvious stuff like "James1" or
"Galliard" or "June15", but also missed some glaring ones.
For example, it failed my Social Insurance number, but only because it was all
from 1 keyboard row. It passed (albiet grudgingly) a version with some
numbers straight substituted for alpha equivalents.
It also thought "06/15/72" (my birthdate) was "Great" -->*Very Bad*
It doesn't seem to account for keyboard shifting. "Galliard" (from my e-mail)
failed, but "Tqoo8q4e", a straight keyboard shift up, passed. Other shifts
(from my name, for example) only failed for other reasons.
It doesn't check QWERTY vs Dvorak translations, for example "Ham.o1" is
"James1" in Qwerty on a Dvorak keyboard, and it got a "great". Some other
obvious/common words failed the translation.
Also, just as an aside, it generates "mild risk" for the weirest things!
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
I'm getting paid for this --> alladvantage.com
Sign up via me, the reference $$ go to fund Lugnet.
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