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  Re: Getting a password reset?
 
(...) Seems like the standard approach. Here's a wrinkle to think about. You allow multiple passwords. So are you going to generate a new one and leave the old one in force? What if I have 4 already? On the other hand, if you get rid of the old one, (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 

password
(score: 1.005)

  Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
 
Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) [0-9]{4} . (...) to (...) longer (...) Waahh, now it hates one of my passwords... Hm, would you consider parametizing some of the things (or is the code something easily portable)? I'd like to check passwords (...) (24 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 

password
(score: 1.005)

  Re: Forgotten Password - help!
 
(...) Roy, Your e-mail request of the 18th got filed wrong, so missed the que. Sorry. I'm having the server send you a new password now. -Suz (22 years ago, 28-Mar-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
 

password
(score: 1.005)

  Problem with Password page?
 
Hi! I am a brand new member, so please excuse the confusion if I am asking a FAQ. I am trying to add a password, but cannot get it to work. Anytime I try to add--or even replace--from the password page, it just simply sits there forever. Doesn't (...) (21 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
 

password
(score: 1.005)

  Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
 
(...) A couple questions about its structure...I don't know if you can answer these but it seems like you could maybe: Without giving away any hints about what it was, why did you think it was risky? Did it contain a word? Did it contain a word (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 

password
(score: 1.005)

  Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
 
(...) The way I've done something similar in the past is to create a larger dictionary: create a temp file with all words having their vowels removed, and do the c/k mutations too, if desired. Sort and remove duplicate entries. Finally, merge back (...) (24 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 

password
(score: 1.005)

  Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
 
(...) You mean, change from checking !->i to checking both !->i and !->l ? (It does currently check !->i -- did that not work for you in some instance?) (...) Good idea! (...) Lemme see about the above suggestions and then you can try it again later (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 

password
(score: 1.005)

  Re: Member Password Center
 
(...) shown (...) Agreed. I've got two memorable passwords right now. One happens to be taken from a sentence that denotes what I think of the current level of security, which makes it VERY memorable for me, anyway. :-) So I would agree. no need to (...) (24 years ago, 11-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 

password
(score: 1.005)

  Re: Lugnet Password
 
(...) Haven't implemented that facility yet... --Todd (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 

password
(score: 1.004)

  Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
 
In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes: <pw checker, play away... some design notes> Oh, and can you post the rank order list somewhere on the page or something? That is, is Outstanding better or worse than Bravissimo! Thanks. ++Lar (24 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 

password
(score: 1.004)

  Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
 
(...) For one things, it's being a bit too harsh on numeric->alpha conversions like 4->A and 3->E...it should divide the intermediate results by 2 or something internally while computing the score after a transformaion like that. (...) They might be (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 

password
(score: 1.004)

  Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
 
(...) Ah, checked again, it didn't detect "7!" as a mapping for "li", but did detect "7i" as "li". It did reject both passwords though, but it had a lot fewer problems with the "7!" version, and the level changed from "worthless" to "weak". (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 

password
(score: 1.004)

  Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
 
(...) If I even say that I can't answer without giving a hint, that's a hint. Therefore: I can't answer without either giving or not giving away hints as to what it is. :-( ++Lar (24 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 

password
(score: 1.004)

  Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
 
(...) It catches the isomorphic QWERTY instance of this ("q12we34r") but I'd love to add xy-tables for Dvorak and non-US keyboards. Any data pointers? (...) That's a sneaky one! :) (...) Ooh -- I'd better make sure that it dislikes [0-9]+[xX][0-9]+ (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 

password
(score: 1.004)

  Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
 
(...) Hmmm...not sure how to go about doing this... The way the checker achieves its speed is by looking up all substrings in its dictionary rather than passing every single diciontionary word over all substrings (which could take hours). So, for (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) ! 
 

password
(score: 1.004)

  Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
 
(...) Try again now. :) (...) It doesn't check for up/down/left/right keyboard shifting, no. (...) It doesn't check for cross-keyboard translations either, no. If I can get my hands on more keyboard xy tables, maybe I can check for these too. (...) (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 

password
(score: 1.004)

  Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
 
(...) I really would love to see how the failure, but it's not work the risk to log them, just as it's not worth the risk to store raw, non-crypted passwords. In the end, this can never be perfect, and I'm sure it will end up accidentally passing (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 

password
(score: 1.004)

  Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
 
(...) OK, try that again now. Seeing that this site is LEGO-related, it's best to treat "x" and "X" as part of numeric stuff. In fact there are many other things besides 'x' and '=' which are numeric-related. :-o It now very much dislikes numerical (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 

password
(score: 1.004)

  Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
 
(...) OK, try again now. (BOY is this thing getting picky now about numbers and stuff. I hope it's not getting too restrictive. I'll have to stop tinkering at some point soon.) (...) Theoretically infinite in both directions. It's just a number, and (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 

password
(score: 1.004)

  Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
 
(...) I've been playing with the 5 character passwords trying to see how high I can get. So far I've got a 156% (Good). Rob - Rob Farver - mailto:rfarver@rcn.com (2 URLs) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 

password
(score: 1.004)

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