RE: Passsword Meter

2013-02-08 Thread Michael B. Smith
Subject: Re: Passsword Meter On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote: >> Ideally, password meters should measure entropy, but that's hard to deduce. > > Not so much, actually, as long as you control what you mean by entropy. > > http://xkcd.com/936/ :)

Re: Passsword Meter

2013-02-08 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote: >> Ideally, password meters should measure entropy, but that's hard to deduce. > > Not so much, actually, as long as you control what you mean by entropy. > > http://xkcd.com/936/ :) I *almost* posted that link. > See the response here

RE: Passsword Meter

2013-02-08 Thread Michael B. Smith
...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 8, 2013 12:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Passsword Meter On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Shauna Hensala wrote: > Try this one from Steve Gibson's site: > https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm That one simply deduces the character set a

Re: Passsword Meter

2013-02-08 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Shauna Hensala wrote: > Try this one from Steve Gibson's site: https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm That one simply deduces the character set and computes permutations, which is not a terribly good measure of password strength. The original one (http://www.passw

RE: Passsword Meter

2013-02-08 Thread Shauna Hensala
Try this one from Steve Gibson's site: https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm From: ste...@addisonreserve.cc To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Passsword Meter Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 10:39:03 -0500 Hmmm, password was not very strong! Stephen L. Holtz, MCSE, MCT Direct

Re: Passsword Meter

2013-02-08 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Crawford, Scott wrote: > If you don't mind typing your password into a web form, this is a pretty nice > indicator of strength. > > http://www.passwordmeter.com/ It appears to be implemented entirely in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. There's a link at the bottom to

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2013-02-08 Thread Guyer, Don
m] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 10:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Passsword Meter They store all the data in Dropbox since with Dropbox passwords are not always required or used even if you have one. Thanks Webster From: Hank . [mailto:hgedr...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: Passs

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2013-02-08 Thread Stephen Holtz
il and any printout thereof. From: Hank . [mailto:hgedr...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 10:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Passsword Meter Not to worry. It is in "the cloud" so it is totally secure... On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 6:21 PM, S Powell

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2013-02-08 Thread Webster
They store all the data in Dropbox since with Dropbox passwords are not always required or used even if you have one. Thanks Webster From: Hank . [mailto:hgedr...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: Passsword Meter Not to worry. It is in "the cloud" so it is totally secure... On Thu, Feb 7,

Re: Passsword Meter

2013-02-08 Thread Hank .
Not to worry. It is in "the cloud" so it is totally secure... On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 6:21 PM, S Powell wrote: > it says that mine, "qwerty123" is not very good... odd that... > > or > > what a great way to collect passwords... > > > - > Sub ubi semper ubi > > > On Thu, Feb 7, 2

Re: Passsword Meter

2013-02-08 Thread Andrew S. Baker
ve a safe and secure > browser that affords me plenty of security on the Internet. What more do I > need? > > ** ** > > Thanks > > ** ** > > ** ** > > Webster > > ** ** > > *From:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] > *Subject:* Re:

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2013-02-07 Thread Kurt Buff
s > > > > > > Webster > > > > From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] > Subject: Re: Passsword Meter > > > > It's not like they won't grab IP info... > > > > Plus, are you *sure* your browser is not giving away username info? > >

RE: Passsword Meter

2013-02-07 Thread Crawford, Scott
True. Like I said, I'm not real crazy about it, but it is a nice interface and could be useful to some. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2013 6:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Passsword Meter It's not like they won'

RE: Passsword Meter

2013-02-07 Thread Webster
I use Internet Exploder and trust Microsoft to have a safe and secure browser that affords me plenty of security on the Internet. What more do I need? Thanks Webster From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: Passsword Meter It's not like they won't grab IP inf

Re: Passsword Meter

2013-02-07 Thread Andrew S. Baker
* On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Crawford, Scott wrote: > Yeah, I'm not too crazy about it, but its not like you put a username in > to match. > > -Original Message- > From: S Powell [mailto:powe...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2013 5:22 PM > To: N

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2013-02-07 Thread Crawford, Scott
Yeah, I'm not too crazy about it, but its not like you put a username in to match. -Original Message- From: S Powell [mailto:powe...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2013 5:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Passsword Meter it says that mine, "qwerty123&qu

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2013-02-07 Thread S Powell
it says that mine, "qwerty123" is not very good... odd that... or what a great way to collect passwords... - Sub ubi semper ubi On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Crawford, Scott wrote: > If you don't mind typing your password into a web form, this is a pretty nice > indicator