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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Password strengh meter in KNewPasswordDialog
From:       Martin Sandsmark <martin.sandsmark () kde ! org>
Date:       2013-04-04 9:52:09
Message-ID: 20130404095209.GA24719 () iskrembilen ! com
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On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 01:02:21AM +0200, Luigi Toscano wrote:
> Have you seen this?
> https://fedorahosted.org/libpwquality/
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PasswordQualityChecking

It doesn't contain any docs about how it calculates anything that I can find,
which is a bit worrying. From looking at the code it looks very simplistic.

But why not simply use cracklib?

Or you could try to compress the string with qCompress/zlib to find a measure
of the entropy contained?

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Martin Sandsmark
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