James J 3 Posted April 14, 2011 Report Share Posted April 14, 2011 Here is an Eample of how I force the end user to create a strong password using regex... (albeit I misnamed this node Forum Usernam RegEx Check... butas you will see it obviously checks the forumpassword variable :-) Strong Password via RegEx.ubot 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
UBotBuddy 331 Posted April 14, 2011 Report Share Posted April 14, 2011 Great routine. Suggestion. As someone who used to work in the security industry, you might want to test for non-numeric and non-alphabetic characters as they really push the security of a password up. Your routine told me I had a strong password when in reality it had one Uppercase, 2 numbers and the rest were lower case characters. I was expecting to see a Low. I then changed one character to upper case and then I got Strong. Again great start and my comments are just my opinion. I gave you a +1 because I have not seen this kind usage for a bot and it is a great idea. A while back I created a bot routine that generated strong passwords. Great idea. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
James J 3 Posted April 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2011 I hear you BotBuddy but for this particular bot it was part of another botthat signs up to websites and I noticed a lot of them required 1 capitalletters and at least eight characters. Which is typically good enough whensigning up at most websites. But if I were automating the creation of a MySql database I just mighttweak the RegEx to require a non numeric or non alphabetic character. James Great routine. Suggestion. As someone who used to work in the security industry, you might want to test for non-numeric and non-alphabetic characters as they really push the security of a password up. Your routine told me I had a strong password when in reality it had one Uppercase, 2 numbers and the rest were lower case characters. I was expecting to see a Low. I then changed one character to upper case and then I got Strong. Again great start and my comments are just my opinion. I gave you a +1 because I have not seen this kind usage for a bot and it is a great idea. A while back I created a bot routine that generated strong passwords. Great idea. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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