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Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 31 Mar 2000 02:10:46 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ...
> 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
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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 # % < = > $ ¢ £ ¤ ¥
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 for all sorts of
things, and the bias against numeric equations may not always be appropriate
(the password that just went from good to bad was not at all intended to be
an equation, it just happens to have an x between two numbers).
Frank
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