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Re: LUGNET Memberships
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lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Tue, 26 Sep 2000 12:53:42 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Dan Jezek writes:
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.

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 dictionary attack robots??)

++Lar



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  Re: LUGNET Memberships
 
(...) University of Oxford. <ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/...rdlists/>. Wordlists have non-password related uses too, apparently. :) (24 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: LUGNET Memberships
 
(...) ^^^...^^^ Ouch! I can only imagine the time it took you to key all that data in. (24 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)

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