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Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 23:35:39 +0300
From: ArkanoiD <ark@...ex.net>
To: "e@...tmx.net" <passwords@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: GMOs And Passwords

Tadaam! Enter "password strength meters" (as discussed earlier and everyone
agreed, as well as with the fact that "policies" suck). They could be
oversimplistic, but certainly first one would fail and second one would
pass.


> it is that almost all policies that reject 123456 also reject very
> sophisticated very personal and enormously strong passwords.
>
> this rejection is uncontrollable you can not guarantee that your policy
> does not reject: "on the second day of waning moon my granma baked
> seventeen cup cakes with swastika frosting"
>

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