Re: Password Cracking & Consequences

[Mike Austin <mga+educause () UVM EDU>]

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Geoff Nathan wrote:

> On a slightly parallel note, does anyone know of a self-service password
> tester--something that would let people test their passwords and let
> them know whether it is acceptable (with all appropriate safeguards in
> place, of course--it could even be anonymous).

We use a simple web script we wrote that uses the Perl Crypt::Cracklib
module.  Just a few lines of code to check password strength.

mga.
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Mike Austin                             The University of Vermont
UNIX Systems Programmer

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