Re: Password Cracking Dictionaries

[James Riden <j.riden () MASSEY AC NZ>]

Timothy Wright <twright () ND EDU> writes:

> 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?

ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/wordlists , and depends on what your target
language(s) is/are. I have a couple, starting with common passwords,
then common dictionary words, then a fairly complete dictionary -
about an order of magnitude difference in size between each.

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James Riden / j.riden () massey ac nz / Systems Security Engineer
Information Technology Services, Massey University, NZ.
GPG public key available at: http://www.massey.ac.nz/~jriden/

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