From - Wed Oct 15 12:39:39 1997 Path: news.mitre.org!blanket.mitre.org!news.tufts.edu!cam-news-feed5.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!chnws03.mediaone.net!204.71.1.61!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!194.67.2.106!newsfeed.sovam.com!sovam!Gamma.RU!srcc!demos!news.rssi.ru!news.glas.apc.org!usenet From: ebs@glasnet.ru (Eugene Surovegin) Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.security Subject: Free Dictionàry Password Filter (with source) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 12:58:17 GMT Organization: Eugene Surovegin, e-mail: Lines: 13 Sender: ebs@glas.apc.org Message-ID: <3445bc14.1405811@nntp.glas.apc.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: hermes.r-style.ru Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 Hi! Everybody interesting in forcing users to use strong passwords can freely download Dictionary Password filter from http://www.glasnet.ru/~ebs/passwordfilter.html This app uses pasword change notification feature introduced in sp2. When user change his/her password filter searches dictionary (such dictionaries used in programs like l0pth crack) and if the dictionary contains new password it's considered to be bad. Full source is also available (you can check for backdoors :) ). Eugene Surovegin