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Message-ID: <20120117195825.GA3256@foo.fgeek.fi>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:58:25 +0200
From: Henri Salo <henri@...v.fi>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: pwgen: non-uniform distribution of passwords
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:51:31PM +0400, Solar Designer wrote:
> It was just pointed out to me off-list that the man page for pwgen
> specifically mentions that this kind of passwords "should not be used in
> places where the password could be attacked via an off-line brute-force
> attack." I had missed that detail or at least I did not recall it.
>
> This kind of documentation certainly mitigates the problem to some extent.
I'll bet most of the end-users will also miss this if you did.
- Henri Salo
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