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Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Tue Feb 13 18:09:44 UTC 2007
tokyoi at mac.com wrote:
>
> I do a similar thing with titles of books in weird languages but was
> quite surprised to find that some of them don't show up as strong
> compared to some plain text passwords. What algorithms are used to
> determine the strength of a password, apart from plain text words in
> dictionaries, personal names and all the obvious ones? Or should I just
> use a whole bookshelf? :-)
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Ian
>
You may want to read the README in /usr/share/doc/pam_passwdqc-1.0.2
- it describes the different tests...
Mikkel
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