Re: Password Cracking Dictionaries

[Dan Updegrove <updegrove () MAIL UTEXAS EDU>]

Tim and colleagues,

Since we don't know who's on this list, let me suggest that any responses
be sent directly to Tim, who could summarize and anonymize the results.

Thanks
Dan


At 12:25 PM 10/1/2004, Timothy Wright wrote:
> What sort of password cracking dictionaries are folks on this list
> using?  In particular, for ensuring the compliance of a candidate
> password with complexity rules (e.g., with cracklib).  There are
> certainly many sources for dictionaries - has anything been adopted as a
> de facto base from which to evolve a dictionary or dictionaries for a
> given institution?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Tim
>
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> Timothy Wright, CISSP, CISA
> Information Security
> Office of Information Technologies
> University of Notre Dame
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