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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Password strength meter
From:       Enrico Ros <eros.kde () email ! it>
Date:       2004-10-29 14:39:11
Message-ID: 200410291639.11656.eros.kde () email ! it
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On Friday 29 October 2004 13:05, Andrew Coles wrote:
> I recently discovered a nice feature in Mozilla - in the master password
> dialogue there's a 'Password strength meter', which gives a rough
> indication of how good the password is (capitals, numbers, symbols etc.).
> 
> I've implemented the same feature in KPassDlg; obviously, I won't commit it
> unless it's approved.  The diff is available at:
> 
> http://cis.strath.ac.uk/~ac/kpassdlg.cpp.diff
> 
> Any comments?

Looks good and maybe it even helps user to pick the best password between the 
ones he/she has in mind. I'm going to change 3 letters of my pwd to capitals 
right now.
Maybe a case insensitive check against tokenized user name (or other user's 
personals) should be added.
Great work Andrew.

Just my 0.02€

 
 
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