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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 (...) (26 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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I have just started listing and evaluating my sets using the new LUGNET set list feature. In the noties field, I put a "PIB" code that would help me determine if I had the Pieces, Instructions, and Box for the set I was entering. I just realized (...) (26 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to 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 (...) (26 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Maybe Todd will finally unveil his gigantic space minifig colony. He's been promising it since '98 .... That would be something to see! I'm not laughing any more :-O - Dan (26 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) LOL, no not that. :) --Todd (26 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Huh? Ther is only one thing I can think of that has a nine month completion cycle, and it doesn't have a thing to do with passwords. Could you elaborate? KL (26 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) heh, I wouldn't know anything about the newsreader, but it shouldn't be hard to put in the mail gateway... and that would certify the sender... however, for the web interface (after thinking about it more), you want it to me a lot more (...) (26 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Oh, I was thinking of something newsreader-based. It'd be more of a pain for the web interface. Unless someone wants to hack something into Mozilla. :) Once upon a time, Verisign was making a big deal over personal certificates. Guess they (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) hmmm... now there's a thought.... how would that work though? make a private/public key pair for each member, and store the public key in the cookie? but what would stop someone from sniffing and stealing the cookie? auth over ssl? hmmm.... (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) University of Oxford. <ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/...rdlists/>. Wordlists have non-password related uses too, apparently. :) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I don't find it funny; I'm just glad it hasn't been a problem. It'd be nice to hack in some sort of GPG-based authentication system.... (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Password checks (was: Re: LUGNET Memberships)
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(...) No, I meant exactly that: I didn't think that anyone would ever (a) forget their password or (b) not be able to just go look it up. When you put it in a cookie, you don't even have to remember it beyond that, unless you move to different (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Ya, when Suzanne showed it to me a while back, I was blown away. I guess it's like professional sw that's used by some real cw makers. (...) Exactly -- it's not part of the core system, and nothing except itself depends on it, and Java is (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Huh? Todd, I hope you meant to write, "I didn't think about dealing with people forgetting their passwords". People forget passwords *all* *the* *time*. That's why so many sites have such ridiculously unsecure password requirements -- so (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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| | 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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