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- From: tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Tim Chown)
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- Subject: Re: Problem with npasswd??
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- Date: 31 Jul 92 13:06:36 GMT
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- In <1992Jul28.035951.22683@reed.edu> nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar) writes:
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- >Furthermore, there's no reason in principle that the crack 4.1 word
- >generation engine (which is excellent) can't be grafted into npasswd.
- >I keep hoping someone else will do the work for me.
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- Why not just alter npasswd to force at least one upper case letter, one
- digit plus one non-alphanumeric? Such passwords can still be remembered
- reasonably easily and are very resistant to cracking programs.
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- Tim
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