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| (...) I'm amazed on how complex and sophisticated the Lugnet password system is. There are the password suggestions, Password strength analyzer which even includes an internal dictionary and gives you the CPU time that it took to analyze the (...) (24 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Yup, it's a serious system. Most systems don't take pw issues seriously. (...) We'll see how many people find it funny nine months from now. --Todd (24 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) That's a problem. It does fail too many good pw's, partially because it tries to be too clever in transmogrifications and 20 different language lookups in its dictionary of 3 million words. (It was just as easy to put in that many as it was to (...) (24 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) ^^^...^^^ Ouch! I can only imagine the time it took you to key all that data in. (24 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) FTP standard ASCII text document, one word per line. Convert to ISO-8859-1 if necessary (character-based search & replace, quick). Feed to indexer via pipe. Walk away, sip coffee, come back later, it's all done. No typing. --Todd (24 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 (...) (24 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, 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 (...) (24 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.... (24 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) University of Oxford. <ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/...rdlists/>. Wordlists have non-password related uses too, apparently. :) (24 years ago, 26-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 (24 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) LOL, no not that. :) --Todd (24 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 (24 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Still on the back burner. (URL) (24 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.people)
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| (...) whatever you'd qualify them as that I've seen look ultra-sweet. But I'm hardly one to talk about low model output. I have at least three things I want to build in my head. Wait. I mean, I have at least three models in my head that I want to (...) (24 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.people)
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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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| (...) 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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| (...) 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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| (...) A combination of things... first, by then there will be more things in place that will matter more; second, the pw validator will very likely be less stringent; third, I predict that within the next nine months, a major online banking site (...) (24 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Actually I found PayPal's pw filter to be fairly stringent. KL (24 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) What do you think about this?-- (URL) (24 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| Todd - an interesting but minor question to these thread links - if I wanted the thread unraveled all the way back to it's source post, how would I do that? Cheers ... Geoffrey Hyde Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message (...) (24 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) When you're viewing an article at the website (such as through one of the links as shown above), scroll down to the bottom of the page and click one of the "Entire Thread on One Page" links. You can see the thread in nested thread form or in (...) (24 years ago, 28-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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| (...) I was thinking more from the perspective of what you are going to create that will have a span of 9 months and not what might happen on the internet outside of LUGNET in 9 months. This still doesn't explain why you have a sophisticated (...) (24 years ago, 28-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
| | | | | pw checking (was: Re: LUGNET Memberships)
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| (...) Well, enough new things that I think it will be hard for anyone to continue belittling the checking anymore. Plus, as I said before, it's possible (and likely, I hope) that the checking will be less stringent. Right now I'm guesstimating that (...) (24 years ago, 28-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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