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Subject: 
Re: Password Tips
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lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Wed, 27 Sep 2000 21:07:40 GMT
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In lugnet.people, Kevin Loch writes:
[...]
Basically, avoid regular letters and numbers at all cost.

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 don't see why some people are having trouble coming
up with something.

But be that as it may, I would much rather discuss practical ways to limit
brute-force cracking throughput so that the strictness of the validator can
be lowered to something more human-factors-friendly.

--Todd



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  Password Tips
 
(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)

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