Three years ago Django introduced the CommonPasswordValidator and included 
a list of 1,000 passwords considered to be "common". That list was based on 
leaked passwords and came from xato.net[1].

I'd like to update the list to

a) be from a more reliable / recent source
b) be larger and more in line with the NIST recommendations

Security researcher Troy Hunt has published a massive list of leaked 
passwords, including frequencies on Have I Been Pwned[2]. The top 20,000 of 
which are available in a gist from Royce Williams[3], including the 
frequency, md5 hash and plain text password.

Interestingly there's 27 passwords in the Django list that aren't in the 
HIBP list. I'd post them here but they're mostly short and not safe for 
work.

I've created a ticket for the increase in size[4] but wanted to check in 
and make sure this is something django-developers thinks is valuable.

Cheers,
Brenton

[1]: 
https://web.archive.org/web/20150315154609/https://xato.net/passwords/more-top-worst-passwords/#.Wr3H1chxV25
[2]: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords
[3]: https://gist.github.com/roycewilliams/281ce539915a947a23db17137d91aeb7
[4]: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/29274

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"Django developers  (Contributions to Django itself)" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email 
to [email protected].
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers.
To view this discussion on the web visit 
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/0a215878-9d3f-4446-a018-602694f54904%40googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

Reply via email to