Andreas Premstaller wrote:
>
> Ben, it definitively is a good thing to educate users to choose good
> passwords. A smart algorithm for the quality meter (as will be or is
> already used in mozilla, right, Bob ;-)?) will use non-alpha-characters,
> uppercase, ... (the "entropy" of the password) to calculate the quality
> of the password. The usual nickname will automatically turn out as a bad
> password then.
Midair collision, forget that, Ben.
> I guess you did not want to suggest to check against
> dictionaries?
Well, later it occurred to me, if we used the dictionary used for mail...
However, which languages are available? And if somebody opts not to use
the spellchecker, he should not be forced to install the dictionary just
to eventually check the quality of his password.
