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Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
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Fri, 31 Mar 2000 00:50:58 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, David Schilling writes:
> > I don't mean to say it's not a good idea to check (I think it is a good
> > idea, just as a diagnostic for people) -- I just don't know how to do it
> > quickly and efficiently without some really big iron.
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> 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 into the original dictionary.
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.
> This makes the
> dictionary much larger, of course. I wasn't using one as large as yours
> already seems to be, but it might still work.
Well, if the dictionary grows from 2.7 million to 3.5 million entries,
that's OK -- it won't slow down probing since it already hits the disk on
almost every probe, and the dictionary DB is only ~30MB.
> [...]
> Actually I assume you already do *something* like this: do you reduce all
> passwords to lower case, and have your dictionary in all lower case?
> This would make sense to do.
Yup!
> Is a word with random caPitAliZatiON that much more
> secure than the same word in one of the three 'normal' senses?
> (Capitalized, capitalized, CAPITALIZED)
Well, I guess a long word like that, assuming equal probability (1/2) on
each letter, would be 2^14 / 3 = ~5000 times more secure than the three
canonical cases? (Speaking only from a brute-force attack standpoint.)
> In any case, the idea is to find passwords that aren't good. The
> explanations of why they aren't is secondary.
Roit! OK, thanks for the insights...it's just a couple one-liners to add
these permutations (er, removals)...
--Todd
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