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Subject:	Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.general
Date:	Thu, 30 Mar 2000 22:42:11 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes: > > I don't know if this really is a bad password, but I > > couldn't resist trying it: > > > > 2x4=3001 > > > > Another lost password choosing algorithm :-( > > Ooh -- I'd better make sure that it dislikes [0-9]+[xX][0-9]+ and [0-9]{4} . OK, try that again now. Seeing that this site is LEGO-related, it's best to treat "x" and "X" as part of numeric stuff. In fact there are many other things besides 'x' and '=' which are numeric-related. :-o It now very much dislikes numerical and/or mathematical substrings (the longer the worse) consisting of two or more of the following characters: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : . , + - * / x X # % < = > $ ¢ £ ¤ ¥ --Todd

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		Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
(...) You might want to add ^ for exponentiation. I just posted a list passwords that passed, including 4 variations of the Theory of Relativity. Rob - Rob Farver - mailto:rfarver@rcn.com (2 URLs) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

		Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) [0-9]{4} . (...) to (...) longer (...) Waahh, now it hates one of my passwords... Hm, would you consider parametizing some of the things (or is the code something easily portable)? I'd like to check passwords (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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		Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
Todd: (...) Grasp your French MacKeyboard. Start with the 'a' (upper left letter), next you go one up to the '&', then you go one right to 'é', one down to 'z', one right to 'e', one up to '"' (double quote), one left to ''' (single quote), and (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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