On 19 August 2010 10:02, Robert Rohde <raro...@gmail.com> wrote: > As a complementary approach it would be nice if there was something in > Mediawiki to aid in the selection of strong passwords. Regardless of > hash function, it will still take about two billion times longer to > find one 10 character password in [A-Za-z0-9] as it does to find a 6 > character password in [a-z]. Even if password strength testing > algorithms were disabled on Wikipedia sites, it would still be a nice > addition to have in the Mediawiki codebase in general.
http://newsarse.com/2010/08/13/if-you-can-remember-your-password-then-its-hopelessly-inadequate-warn-researchers/ Passwords suck, and people are a problem. Now, if we could distribute RSA fobs to every editor ... - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
