Re: [Wikitech-l] Readable and easy to remember passwords

John Ky wrote:

Hello,

Is it possible to make Mediawiki generate readable and easy to remember passwords? ie. avoiding confusion between 1 and l, and using combinations of letters that are pronouncable?

Thanks

-John

Hoi, There is a difference between if MediaWiki could generate passwords and if it should. When there is an engine that generates passwords, this same engine could be used to generate passwords for an attack. Choosing passwords is the end-users responsibility. It is exactly by choosing a 1 in stead of an l that a brute force attack becomes slightly more problematic.

The other thing to consider is that when MW starts generating passwords, they will then be based on English ?? Bad idea when people use other languages like Hindi or Russian.. At that the captchas doing English words is not that great an idea (though it is convenient for me).

Thanks, GerardM