BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
ID:: ncstrl.dartmouthcs//TR90-152
ENTRY:: January 20, 1995
ORGANIZATION:: Dartmouth College, Computer Science
TITLE:: A Proactive Password Checker
TYPE:: Technical Report (paper)
REVISION:: 1
AUTHOR:: Bishop, Matt
NOTE:: The 'January' in DATE is an arbitrary placeholder.
DATE:: January 1990
RETRIEVAL:: For a paper copy, email <reports@cs.dartmouth.edu>
RETRIEVAL:: For a paper copy, write to
       Technical Report Librarian
       Department of Computer Science
       Dartmouth College
       6211 Sudikoff Laboratory
       Hanover, NH 03755-3510
       USA
RETRIEVAL:: PDF at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR90-152.pdf
ABSTRACT::
	Password selection has long been a difficult issue;
traditionally, passwords are either assigned by the computer or chosen
by the user.  When the computer does the assignments, the passwords
are often hard to remember; when the User makes the selection, the
passwords are often easy to guess.  This paper describes a technique,
and a mechanism, to allow users to select passwords which to them are
easy to remember but to others would be very difficult to guess.  The
technique is site, user, and group configurable, and allows rapid
changing of constraints impossed upon the passwords.  Although
experience with this technique has been limited, it appears to have
much promise.
END:: ncstrl.dartmouthcs//TR90-152