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Re: LUGNET Memberships
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Tue, 26 Sep 2000 06:54:22 GMT
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In lugnet.people, Todd Lehman writes:
In lugnet.people, Dan Jezek writes:
[...]
analyze the password... I tried P4#$37FG and it barely passed.  Ability to
[...]

That's a problem.  It does fail too many good pw's, partially because it
tries to be too clever in transmogrifications and 20 different language
lookups in its dictionary of 3 million words.
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Ouch!  I can only imagine the time it took you to key all that data in.



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  Re: LUGNET Memberships
 
(...) FTP standard ASCII text document, one word per line. Convert to ISO-8859-1 if necessary (character-based search & replace, quick). Feed to indexer via pipe. Walk away, sip coffee, come back later, it's all done. No typing. --Todd (24 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: LUGNET Memberships
 
(...) Imagine it is all you *can* do, as Todd didn't actually do the typing, he said he got lists of words readily available from the 'net that are made available (by whom?) to aid in building stronger password checkers. (and also to aid in building (...) (24 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: LUGNET Memberships
 
(...) That's a problem. It does fail too many good pw's, partially because it tries to be too clever in transmogrifications and 20 different language lookups in its dictionary of 3 million words. (It was just as easy to put in that many as it was to (...) (24 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)

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