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From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.misc,sci.crypt
Subject: Re: Password choices
Keywords: passwords
Message-ID: <17529@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 6 Jul 88 17:01:09 GMT
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Reply-To: jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle)
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      About five years ago, I posted to the net an "obvious password detector",
a few pages of C intended for use in places such as "passwd" to detect an
attempt to use a password that could be guessed by the usual techniques.
(The algorithm worked by using the fact that the space of letter triples in
English is only 20% populated.)  

      If anyone still has this code, I would appreciate a copy; I no longer
have one.

					John Nagle