[Thamesvalley-pm] password strength check

[Greg Matthews]

Dave Cross wrote:
> The structure of the Camel book changed radically between the first  
> and second editions. The first (pink) edition had a couple of chapters  
> that were basically just listings of useful Perl programs.
> 
> By the time the second (blue) edition was being prepared, Perl had  
> grown so much that there wasn't room for these chapters any more. They  
> were therefore spun off into a separate book (The Perl Cookbook). I'm  
> not sure if this particular program made it into the Cookbook, but  
> that would be where I would start looking :)

not that I can see (1st and 2nd Eds). The cookbook only contains zero, 
one or two longer programs per chapter.

Interestingly, I've been pretty unsuccessful googling for password 
strength checkers that I could adapt for this usage. I would have 
thought that there were lots of implementations in all sorts of 
languages. Perhaps its not an "interesting" enough problem.

G

ps would anyone be interesting in "auditing" my script? I have the bulk 
of it done minus the strength checking.

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave...
> 


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