On 19 August 2010 10:02, Robert Rohde <rarohde(a)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-h…
Passwords suck, and people are a problem. Now, if we could distribute
RSA fobs to every editor ...
- d.