Re: Rejecting weak passwords

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Kevin Grittner
<Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> wrote:
> Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>
>> No. Any checks at the client are worthless, as they can be bypassed
>> by 10 minutes worth of simple coding in any of a dozen or more
>> languages.
>
> Well, sure, but we're talking about a client going out of their way to
> wrestle the point of the gun toward their own foot, aren't we?  If
> we're worried about the user compromising their own password, we have
> bigger problems, like that slip of paper in their desk drawer with the
> password written on it.  I mean, I know some of these checklists can
> be pretty brain-dead (I've been on both sides of the RFP process many
> times), but it would seem over the top to say that client-side
> password strength checks aren't OK for the reason you give.

See my previous comment about dates. Check-box items aside, I have
absolutely no desire to try to give the illusion of a security
feature, when in reality any user could easily bypass it.


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Dave Page
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