Pass or fail: A new test for password legitimacy
Description:
While other programs check for bad passwords after the fact, it in important to have good passwords at all times, not just after the latest Crack run. To this end we have modified Larry Wall's Perl password program and added, among other features, the ability to check a sorted list of all the bad passwords'' that Crack will generate, given all the dictionaries that we could get our hands on (107 MB of unique words, so far). The combination of improvements has turned publicly available code into…
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Date:
September 25, 1992
Creator:
Cherry, Andrew; Henderson, Mark W.; Nickless, William K.; Olson, Robert & Rackow, Gene
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department