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Animats · 0 points · 0 comments · 9. Juni

Back in 1984, I wrote the original "obvious password detector".[1] It just checks whether a password has English language trigram stats. This prevents dictionary attacks. Everything is so much more complicated now. [1] https://www.animats.com/source/obvious/obvious.c

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