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Individual packages do not have capacity to each develop their own algorithms, a strong / good library should be created or chosen out of multiple implementations and integrated in many packages: ubiquity & gnome-control-centre is just two of many places where users create a passwords. Therefore this will required deeper thought and better integration, given the high requirements, full i18n awareness is hard to achieve pragmatically. As a rule of thumb concatenated short sentance (15 characters of more) will always be stronger than random / shorter strings. And there will always be an easy password as perceived by the human, yet marked as hard by an algorithm. We do not want it to be impossible to achieve "fair/good/strong" passwords. As it is merely an indication that a user is on the right track to a strong password, not an approval. There are many installations and context where a strong password is not needed, nor desired by design. E.g. cloud images have passwordless accounts & passwordless root. Because access to those machines is locked down via public-key ssh connections. There is no way to know what authentication context will be used and what is the full security model. One password will not protect you. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1044868 Title: Ubuntu should encourage stronger passwords using stronger algorithms, note i18n issues To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1044868/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
