Re: password security

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From: Jon Zeeff
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1988 14:08

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The simple solution seems to be to force users to use some non alpha
character somewhere in the middle of their passwords.  Users then tend 
to use a combination of two words which prevents the dictionary search.


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  Jon Zeeff			zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us
  Support ISO 8859/1		zeeff%b-tech.uucp@umix.cc.umich.edu
  Ann Arbor, MI			umix!b-tech!zeeff

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From: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt,comp.unix.wizards,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: password security
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Date: 21 Dec 88 14:08:25 GMT
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