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Re: Password Management

Subject: Re: Password Management
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:25:43 +0200
On 2006-04-24 cv.arun@yahoo.com wrote:
Microsoft recently released a link to help you choose
"good passwords"

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/privacy/password_checker.mspx

Which is absolutely ridiculous. Pages like this one tell users that it's
okay to enter their passwords into web-forms as long as they have
"password-check" written on them.

And about "good passwords":

alwobljrrekcoaloenyalwz -> weak
Password                -> medium
Password1               -> strong

Yeah, right.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
-- 
"All vulnerabilities deserve a public fear period prior to patches
becoming available."
--Jason Coombs on Bugtraq

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