Re: PyPI password rules

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Date	2014-08-28 09:47 -0500
Subject	Re: PyPI password rules
From	Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.13563.1409237280.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:

> What's the value in ruling out less common words?  I would think the more
> the merrier!

I think less common "words" are likely to actually not be words, just
misspellings of other words, and thus harder for the user to remember. More
cruft to ignore/eliminate. The sources for the corpus being (in my case)
public mailing lists or (in Chris's case) D&D chatter, the likelihood of
misspellings is pretty high.

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Re: PyPI password rules Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2014-08-28 09:47 -0500

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