If you would, please post your code some place and let us know the URL to it.
There is supposed to be an iPhone version coming out, but I suspect that it will be done using MonoDevelop (C#.NET for non-Windows platforms) rather than being written in ObjC/Cocoa. - h On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 08:12, Jim Turner <jturner.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > Awesome find, Howard. I've needed a password strength algorithm in the > past and never could find one. Plus, the strength computed by the > Password Assistant is questionable at best. Given a password of > 'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa' (20 lowercase 'a'), the assistant scores it > about a 20%. Add one more 'a' though and it jumps to 80%. I'm not sure > how that one extra 'a' is worth a 60% increase in strength. I'd be > nice if their implementation was a bit more open for examination. > > The algorithm used by KeePass, however, scores both a 20-character 'a' > and 21-character 'a' password as 10 (with 0 being no password or a > worthless password). Seems more accurate. > > If anyone's interested in it, I wrote a Cocoa version of their > implementation. I'd be happy to make it available. > > Jim > > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Howard Siegel <hsie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Have a look at the source code for KeePass Password Safe ( > > http://keepass.info/). It has a password generator and strength > > computation. Version 1.x is written in C++ for MS Windows (using MFC). > > Version 2.x is a rewrite in C# for .NET. > > > > It has been ported as KeyPassX for Mac OS X and Linux. > > > > - h > > > > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:51, Martin Hewitson < > martin.hewit...@aei.mpg.de>wrote: > > > >> Dear list, > >> > >> Is anybody aware of a reasonable algorithm or some code that can be used > to > >> test/check the strength of a password? I'd like to give a kind of score > or a > >> color (red,yellow,green). I've looked at cracklib, but that doesn't give > a > >> score, really. > >> > >> Best wishes, > >> > >> Martin > >> > >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >> Martin Hewitson > >> Albert-Einstein-Institut > >> Max-Planck-Institut fuer > >> Gravitationsphysik und Universitaet Hannover > >> Callinstr. 38, 30167 Hannover, Germany > >> Tel: +49-511-762-17121, Fax: +49-511-762-5861 > >> E-Mail: martin.hewit...@aei.mpg.de > >> WWW: http://www.aei.mpg.de/~hewitson<http://www.aei.mpg.de/%7Ehewitson>< > http://www.aei.mpg.de/%7Ehewitson> > >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> > >> Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > >> > >> Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > >> Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > >> > >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > >> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/hsiegel%40gmail.com > >> > >> This email sent to hsie...@gmail.com > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > > > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/jturner.lists%40gmail.com > > > > This email sent to jturner.li...@gmail.com > > > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
