Hi, I'm new to AUR so I hope sending a patch like this is the correct thing to do.
There are 95 printable ASCII characters which with a minimum length of 4 gives 95^4 or 81 million possible passwords. Increasing the minimum length to 8 increases the number of possible passwords by a factor of about 10^7. I imagine most AUR users have pretty good password practice so they won't be affected by this change, but it will improve security for a subset of users. For a given user I can generate all 4 character passwords on my laptop in under 2 minutes in Python and therefore all 5 character passwords in a few hours. This change makes it much harder (but still nowhere near impossible) to brute force generate passwords. FS#52297 <https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/52297> Cheers, Alex
From d09b53429a78dc7119866efa17bc97a3c25cff76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Muller <a...@mullr.net> Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 11:09:44 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Increase minimum password length to 8 characters There are 95 printable ASCII characters which with a minimum length of 4 gives 95^4 or 81 million possible passwords. Increasing the minimum length to 8 increases the number of possible passwords by a factor of about 10^7. I imagine most AUR users have pretty good password practice so they won't be affected by this change, but it will improve security for a subset of users. For a given user I can generate all 4 character passwords on my laptop in under 2 minutes in Python and therefore all 5 character passwords in a few hours. This change makes it much harder (but still nowhere near impossible) to brute force generate passwords. FS#52297 <https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/52297> --- conf/config.proto | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/conf/config.proto b/conf/config.proto index 96fad80..63e2458 100644 --- a/conf/config.proto +++ b/conf/config.proto @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ password = aur [options] username_min_len = 3 username_max_len = 16 -passwd_min_len = 4 +passwd_min_len = 8 default_lang = en sql_debug = 0 max_sessions_per_user = 8 -- 2.11.0
