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In lugnet.people, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Matthew Miller writes:
> > Larry Pieniazek <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote:
> > > 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??)
> >
> > University of Oxford. <ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/wordlists/>. Wordlists have
> > non-password related uses too, apparently. :)
>
> What? You mean there's more to LUGNET than sparring about passwords and spam?
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> As to the link, thanks, new I had scene it B4. I never knead dictionaries,
> personally, except when siteing to refute... Just ask me, I'll be glad to tell
> you wot a grate speller I am.
>
> ++Lar
I just figured out how to easially pass the LUGNET pw test. Use
lots of special characters. This one: ^n).F6'%#*><}{#: scores
a whopping 900% with no warnings. Just make sure you throw in a number
a lower case letter and an upper case letter and you are all set.
That bypasses the pesky /<-R4d dictionary translator (numbers <-> words)
that has probably been messing most people up. Of course this does
restrict the keyspace significantly, but at least you won't have to
try 300 passwords to get one that passes.
Of course yours doesn't have to be as long as the 900% example.
It diddn't take too long ot come up with ]4b[G which is only 5 characters
yet passes with 350% and absolutely no warnings. Hey, that's a great
strong pasword. "Excellent" according to the appraisal.
Also, it's easier to pass if you avoid mathematical symbols <>-+#%,
heavilly favoring others []':; and so on.
Basically, avoid regular letters and numbers at all cost.
KL
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| (...) Gee, that was so funny I almost forgot to laugh. There are plenty of 6-character pw's that you can use that have 5 letters and one number or special character, and plenty of 7-character pw's that you can use that are all lowercase letters. I (...) (24 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Easially? (...) Hey, we better enhance the tester to prevent that password, it's kind of sort of easy to remember. <GD&R> Seriously, I like the active anti cracker defense idea a lot better and I think that's the better way to solve the (...) (24 years ago, 28-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) What? You mean there's more to LUGNET than sparring about passwords and spam? As to the link, thanks, new I had scene it B4. I never knead dictionaries, personally, except when siteing to refute... Just ask me, I'll be glad to tell you wot a (...) (24 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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