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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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(...) 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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(...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.people)
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(...) Still on the back burner. (URL) (26 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.people)
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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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(...) 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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(...) <snip> The plans are progressing? (...) <snip> Set a Date? (...) Please keep us informed. Anticipation is part of the fun! Good thoughts to and for you both! sheree (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people)
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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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(...) 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 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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(...) 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 (26 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. (26 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 (...) (26 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 (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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