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Subject:	Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.general
Date:	Wed, 12 Apr 2000 23:44:30 GMT
Reply-To:	mattdm@mattdm.%saynotospam%org
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote: > http://www.lugnet.com/people/members/pwsa/ Oh, hey, I'd missed this. Two suggestions: 1. Can you use https for this? 2. How about a 'passwords submitted aren't logged' privacy statement? Why? 'Cause it's so cool I was instantly tempted into typing in old passwords that I no longer use, and was almost tempted into typing in passwords _currently_ in use. (And by Larry's posts, I see he was tempted too...) Bad. :) Also: /|\@++|>/|\ = 361% Excellent (PASS) :) -- Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/

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		Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
(...) What's involved in setting up an https server? I remember reading once upon a time (it must've been about 2 years ago) that it could be kind of a mess, and that connections often took 1 second to authenticate. That would be a problem for (...) (25 years ago, 13-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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		Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
(...) OK, here it is: (URL) summary: Type in a password and it tells you "pass" or "fail". 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. (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !!

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