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Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2016 21:21:03 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: passwords@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Am I Overlooking any Practical Attacks?
On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 01:33:55PM -0400, Scott Arciszewski wrote:
> I was referring to this post by Mark Burnett from 2011 and the subsequent
> lists released: https://xato.net/10-000-top-passwords-6d6380716fe0
>
> I also wasn't aware that he released a follow-up with 10,000,000. :)
There are some inconsistencies in Mark's data (suggesting data
processing errors on his part), as I pointed out in this Twitter thread:
https://mobile.twitter.com/m8urnett/status/558073405497671684
One of the easiest to spot is that his "10k most common" and "10k most
common with frequency" differ by 5 passwords, but that's minor. What's
worse is that Mark's 2011 analysis greatly overestimated the percentage
of passwords that fall into top 10k (and was also inconsistent about
this percentage). Re-reading this Twitter thread now, it looks like it
was ~99% in 2011 vs. ~24% in 2014 - clearly not an actual change, but
just (major) data processing errors or/and biases.
With inconsistencies like this, I wouldn't rely on the data for anything
serious, and certainly not as the only source.
That said, I just ran a test of passwdqc on Mark's top 10k list above
(using my copy I downloaded during that discussion in 2015, but I assume
it hasn't changed):
[solar@...l passwdqc-1.3.0]$ time while read -r pw; do echo $pw | LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./pwqcheck -1 > /dev/null && echo $pw; done < ../xato/'10k most common.txt'
films+pic+galeries
real 0m6.538s
user 0m1.843s
sys 0m8.302s
So this list somehow contains the passphrase films+pic+galeries.
I think it's fine that it meets passwdqc's default policy. Is this
also the one that passes Zxcvbn?
Alexander
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