On Mon, 2017-01-02 at 12:41 +0000, Alex Muller via aur-dev wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to AUR so I hope sending a patch like this is the correct thing > to do. >
Use git-send-email(1) or send the patch inline instead of adding a patch as an attachment and make sure you sign-off on the patch. > There are 95 printable ASCII characters which with a minimum length > of 4 gives 95^4 or 81 million possible passwords. > > Increasing the minimum length to 8 increases the number of possible > passwords by a factor of about 10^7. I imagine most AUR users have > pretty good password practice so they won't be affected by this change, > but it will improve security for a subset of users. > > For a given user I can generate all 4 character passwords on my laptop > in under 2 minutes in Python and therefore all 5 character passwords > in a few hours. This change makes it much harder (but still nowhere > near impossible) to brute force generate passwords. > Since this is also in the patch, I would not really include these paragraphs in the patch since they are not all that necessary to be that verbose about it. > FS#52297 <https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/52297> > I would change this to "Fixes: FS#52297" instead. > Cheers, > > Alex Mark Weiman
