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#15808 Feature Suggestion

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Latest post by nicholas on Thursday, 18 April 2013 20:48 CDT

UglyEoin
Just a feature suggestion

Description of my issue:

Would it be possible to add some rules about password strength? May to make sure users are using reasonably large passwords. Perhaps at least for Super Users and Administrators?

I saw a plugin on the extensions directory, but I didn't know if it was good or not, it's got no reviews, but I thought this was quite important. I figured Admin Tools was a good place for such functionality.

What do you think? Something that might happen one day or not?

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
I disagree with such rules. Case to make a point. The following password:
correct_horse-battery_stapler
does not satisfy half of the typical rules of a strong password but it's extremely hard to brute force. Even harder to brute force:
correct cheval Batterie συρραπτικό
Combining four languages. Try brute forcing that with JtR or HashCat. It will take you months IF you have full dictionaries for all four languages and you suspect that the user may have used proper words. You get the idea.

So, what is a strong password? Not the typical password looking like line noise which is impossible to remember. A strong password is one which you can remember and is complex enough to make brute forcing counter productive. Putting automated rules for that? Good luck :)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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