Re: Password Management

[Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>]

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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