Password choices

John B. Nagle jbn at glacier.STANFORD.EDU
Thu Jul 7 03:01:09 AEST 1988


      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 Nagle



More information about the Comp.unix.questions mailing list