On 19 August 2010 10:02, Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com wrote:
As a complementary approach it would be nice if there was something in Mediawiki to aid in the selection of strong passwords. Regardless of hash function, it will still take about two billion times longer to find one 10 character password in [A-Za-z0-9] as it does to find a 6 character password in [a-z]. Even if password strength testing algorithms were disabled on Wikipedia sites, it would still be a nice addition to have in the Mediawiki codebase in general.
http://newsarse.com/2010/08/13/if-you-can-remember-your-password-then-its-ho...
Passwords suck, and people are a problem. Now, if we could distribute RSA fobs to every editor ...
- d.