jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle) (07/07/88)
About five years ago, I posted to the net an "obvious password detector",
a few pages of C intended for use in places such as "passwd" to detect an
attempt to use a password that could be guessed by the usual techniques.
(The algorithm worked by using the fact that the space of letter triples in
English is only 20% populated.)
If anyone still has this code, I would appreciate a copy; I no longer
have one.
John Naglelvc@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Lawrence V. Cipriani) (07/08/88)
Choosing good passwords is also aggravated by password aging. The problem is that the user is suddenly told to choose a new password immediately. A local program (which I can't share but someone out there could write easily) gives you a reminder when you login if your password is going to expire within a week. This gives you plenty of time to cook up a good password. -- Larry Cipriani, AT&T Network Systems and Ohio State University Domain: lvc@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Path: ...!cbosgd!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!lvc (strange but true)