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Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 12 Apr 2000 22:45:48 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Susan Hoover wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman wrote:
>
> > In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> > > [...]
> > > I'll put this password thingy up on a webpage for people to try
> > > out, maybe later tonight. If we can all agree that it does a
> > > good job of weeding out bad passwords, then I'll put it into
> > > place for where you can actually change your own password.
> >
> > OK, here it is:
> >
> > http://www.lugnet.com/people/members/pwsa/
>
> What a neat tool! (Almost said "toy", but some people might take it
> the wrong way. "Toy" as in "geek thing to play with" rather than as
> in "insignificant".)
>
> > First important question:
> >
> > Are there any bad passwords which this fails to reject? (If it
> > rejects a seemingly good password, that's not necessarily a
> > problem. Failing to reject a bad password is a far more serious
> > problem.)
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> Yes! Several passwords of the form "[l3G0]" (with brackets but
> without the quotation marks) get an adequate passing grade of ~149%.
> Try things like !Ll1 for the L, 3E for E, G6 for G, 0O or the ()
> pair for O.
Ugh. "[l3G()]" gets a 506% passing grade.
--
Susan Hoover
Houston, TX
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