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[Ian Astley]

On 13 Feb 2007, at 18:09, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:

> tokyoi at mac.com wrote:
>>
>> I do a similar thing with titles of books in weird languages but was
>> quite surprised to find that some of them don't show up as strong
>> compared to some plain text passwords. What algorithms are used to
>> determine the strength of a password, apart from plain text words in
>> dictionaries, personal names and all the obvious ones? Or should I  
>> just
>> use a whole bookshelf? :-)
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Ian
>>
> You may want to read the README in /usr/share/doc/pam_passwdqc-1.0.2
>  - it describes the different tests...

Thanks, Mikkel, that was a bit on the recondite side for poor old me!

Best wishes,

Ian