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Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
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Thu, 30 Mar 2000 22:00:04 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, James Brown writes:
> Inconsistent results. It quite happily failed obvious stuff like "James1"
> or "Galliard" or "June15", but also missed some glaring ones.
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> 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.
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> It also thought "06/15/72" (my birthdate) was "Great" -->*Very Bad*
Try again now. :)
> 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 for up/down/left/right keyboard shifting, no.
> 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.
It doesn't check for cross-keyboard translations either, no. If I can get my
hands on more keyboard xy tables, maybe I can check for these too.
> Also, just as an aside, it generates "mild risk" for the weirest things!
Ya, its dictionary of matching words is pretty insane. One of the input
files had several megabytes of unique words from USENET. Many of the other
weird things come from acronyms and non-English words.
--Todd
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