Nice! Thanks for the pointers Tauren. It's good that they have dictionary search capability. In my (cursory) research, this is the only way to have decent strength verification. You can come up with mathematical models representing # of combinations of characters and such, but all of the ones I've seen publicly available at least fail with simple 'L33T'-speak words.
For example, @dm1nP@sSw0rd! is a 14-character word, almost double the usual 8 character minimum, and it contains letters, numbers, punctuation and symbols. However something like this would easily succumb to a password cracker. Something needs to be created that can transform things like this back to 'real' words, and then run those through a dictionary search. Not easy stuff when you need to ensure the check is fast... Cheers, Les
