Agreed 100%

Speed is the main reason I didn't include dictionary tests. But if Shiro
made this stuff easy and fast, I certainly would have!

Tauren
 On Feb 16, 2011 8:02 AM, "Les Hazlewood" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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

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