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Subject:	Re: PW validation (was: Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful?)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.general
Date:	Wed, 26 Apr 2000 02:37:29 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Mike Stanley writes: > [...] > I've fed it almost every password I've ever used, some of which took more > than a day on a P2 for l0phtcrack to brute-force, and it failed them all. > [...] > I've got a password or three now that it passes, taking a tip from your > "first letter of each word of a sentence" comment. But I don't see them > as any better than the multitude it failed. > [...] Thanks for the above data points. How badly did it fail them by? Did you catch this post from Monday?-- http://www.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=6459 What threshold number was below the all the number returned for the ones you tried that it failed? Would a threshold of, say, 50 (instead of the current 100) pass all of the ones that it's currently failing? Would a threshold of -100? (The threshold is just a number on a scale -- that scale can be adjusted.) --Todd

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		Re: PW validation (was: Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful?)
(...) Pretty badly - I know they were all worthless. I didn't really pay attention to the numbers. I think they were as low negatively, though, as the "first leter from each word in a sentence" was positively, though. (...) I think they were all < (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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		Re: PW validation (was: Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful?)
(...) I haven't posted with respect to this in a while, but I would like to say that if you use this current validator to validate what people can choose for passwords you might as well just not use it and keep sticking people with the ones you are (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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