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Re: [PLUG] Does restricting partial words weaken passwords?
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On 08/29, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> Hrm. Some words have fewer than that. And are you actually
> postulating that disallowing (theoretically) predictable chunks of
> characters in a password will make the password *less* secure? (This
> is counter-intuitive, but I'm not disagreeing just yet.)
At the picnic it was suggested that disallowing passwords which contained
dictionary words would reduce the strength of the password, by reducing the
number of possible passwords. The question was, how effective would a
reverse dictionary attack be ?
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