Re: Password strengh meter in KNewPasswordDialog

2013-04-10 Thread Luigi Toscano
On Thursday 04 of April 2013 11:52:09 Martin Sandsmark wrote: On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 01:02:21AM +0200, Luigi Toscano wrote: Have you seen this? https://fedorahosted.org/libpwquality/ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PasswordQualityChecking It doesn't contain any docs about how it

Re: Password strengh meter in KNewPasswordDialog

2013-04-04 Thread Christoph Feck
On Thursday 04 April 2013 00:53:28 Rolf Eike Beer wrote: Am Mittwoch 03 April 2013, 14:53:40 schrieb Thiago Macieira: On quarta-feira, 3 de abril de 2013 22.39.47, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: Also punish all passwords harder that do not contain all types of characters, so a password

Re: Password strengh meter in KNewPasswordDialog

2013-04-04 Thread Martin Sandsmark
On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 01:02:21AM +0200, Luigi Toscano wrote: Have you seen this? https://fedorahosted.org/libpwquality/ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PasswordQualityChecking It doesn't contain any docs about how it calculates anything that I can find, which is a bit worrying. From

Password strengh meter in KNewPasswordDialog

2013-04-03 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
Hi all, the current issue of (German) Linux Magazin has an article comparing some GnuPG frontends. One issue discussed there is the password strength meter that gives e.g. 25% strength indication for things like 123456789. I don't know about Kleopatra, but KGpg uses KNewPasswordDialog and it's

Re: Password strengh meter in KNewPasswordDialog

2013-04-03 Thread Thiago Macieira
On quarta-feira, 3 de abril de 2013 22.39.47, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: Also punish all passwords harder that do not contain all types of characters, so a password containing only lowercase characters and numbers needs to be much longer than one also containing specials and uppercase

Re: Password strengh meter in KNewPasswordDialog

2013-04-03 Thread Cristian Tibirna
On Wednesday 03 April 2013 22:39:47 Rolf Eike Beer wrote: Hi all, the current issue of (German) Linux Magazin has an article comparing some GnuPG frontends. One issue discussed there is the password strength meter that gives e.g. 25% strength indication for things like 123456789. I don't

Re: Password strengh meter in KNewPasswordDialog

2013-04-03 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
Am Mittwoch 03 April 2013, 18:47:17 schrieb Cristian Tibirna: On Wednesday 03 April 2013 22:39:47 Rolf Eike Beer wrote: Hi all, the current issue of (German) Linux Magazin has an article comparing some GnuPG frontends. One issue discussed there is the password strength meter that

Re: Password strengh meter in KNewPasswordDialog

2013-04-03 Thread Luigi Toscano
Rolf Eike Beer wrote: So, yes, you are absolutely right. Suggestions about how to improve that absolutely welcome. Have you seen this? https://fedorahosted.org/libpwquality/ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PasswordQualityChecking Ciao -- Luigi

Re: Password strengh meter in KNewPasswordDialog

2013-04-03 Thread Michael Pyne
On Wednesday, April 03, 2013 18:47:17 Cristian Tibirna wrote: On Wednesday 03 April 2013 22:39:47 Rolf Eike Beer wrote: Hi all, http://xkcd.com/936/ In fairness, common dictionary words (no matter how long) have less entropy than you would get just from adding the letters. Each word can