john-users - Re: password ranking

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Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 22:58:49 +0100
From: "Luke O'Connor" <lukejamesoconnor@...il.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: password ranking

Matt,

thanks for the links and I will take this thread up with your personally.

For everyone else, my blog deals with security and risk and there are
quite a few post on password topics. You may be interested in a post
on how to count restricted password
spaces<http://lukenotricks.blogspot.com/2008/03/counting-restricted-password-spaces.html>,
or an overview of NIST's
approach increasing password complexity through entropy
arguments<http://lukenotricks.blogspot.com/2008/03/nist-passwords-and-entropy.html>
.

No shameless promotion intended :-)

rgs

Luke

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Matt Weir <cweir@...edu> wrote:

> Hey Luke,
>  First, I read your blog http://lukenotricks.blogspot.com/ and I really
> enjoy it. I'm actually writing my dissertation on password cracking and
> I've spent a lot of time struggling with the very same problem you posted.

[...]

> I'd love to talk more about this but I don't want to get too far off the
> topic of John the Ripper on this mailing list. My e-mail is
> weir@...fsu.edu if you have any questions though.
>
> Matt Weir