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Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
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Fri, 31 Mar 2000 00:15:31 GMT
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On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 22:42:11 GMT, Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> 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} .
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> 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
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> It now very much dislikes numerical and/or mathematical substrings (the longer
> the worse) consisting of two or more of the following characters:
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> 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : . , + - * / x X # % < = > $ ¢ £ ¤ ¥
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> --Todd
You might want to add ^ for exponentiation. I just posted a list passwords
that passed, including 4 variations of the Theory of Relativity.
Rob
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Rob Farver - mailto:rfarver@rcn.com
http://www.farver.com/lego/
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/rfarver
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