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| Todd: I just got a chance to read about the engine behind the Crossword puzzle. Very very powerful and sophisticated, but also, apparently, commercial software. How does this square with the LUGNET philosophy? I thought you didn't want to use any (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | | | Re: LUGNET Memberships
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| "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G1HDIu.J6p@lugnet.com... (...) other (...) I (...) So ... are you going to tell us what is going to happen nine months from now or just leave us hanging? IMHO, the password checker and system (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
| | | | | Re: LUGNET Memberships
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| (...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
| | | | | Re: Password checks (was: Re: LUGNET Memberships)
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| (...) A solution to this could be to do the following: - when someone asks for a password reset, create a new password for them, put it in the list, also put it in a special "reset account" password file (along with the ID). - when the user receives (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
| | | | | Re: Password crack detection and slowing (was: Re: LUGNET Memberships)
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| (...) Oh! One other thing, duh. An advantage this has over pure semaphores or mutexes is that, since it has a sort of "memory" about how many times an IP address has recent sent a failure, it could easily respond with immediate 403 errors (upon (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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