Obvious password detector / eliminator

[Henry Spencer]

There is a disadvantage to this routine.  My personal guess would be
that it will exclude almost any pronounceable word, even if it's a
nonsense word.  Why is this significant?  Because pronounceable words
are much easier to remember than arbitrary sequences of gibberish.
Well, you ask, why is *this* significant?  Because if a user can't
remember his password, he will write it down, and that's just what we
don't want.

It is true that requiring a password to be pronounceable reduces its
information content, making brute-force password searching easier, but
the benefits are usually considered worth the cost.  Password holders
are human; nothing short of military discipline (*good* military
discipline) will keep them from writing down something they find hard
to remember.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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