Re: Passphrases in Windows ??

From: Marlon Brown (marlon_brownj_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/14/04 

Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 19:33:27 -0700

Thanks. Are you saying you are able to use your password something like:

"Hello-world-I-am-here-since-1997"

and that would be considered a strong password ?

"Joe Richards [MVP]" <humorexpress@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:eOqlPAUOEHA.3348@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> It sounds like you are describing something that takes in one password
from the
> user and converts it to something else to send to the system. If that is
it, I
> haven't seen anything like it and would question its validity even if I
saw it.
> It would have to intercept all types of authentication attempts which
means
> inserting pretty deeply which would be a huge pain if MS updates something
and
> it breaks your third party tool.
>
> You can use long passwords though, my password on one of my secure Windows
> Servers is actually a passphrase that is about 50 characters long.
>
> joe
>
> --
> Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services
> www.joeware.net
>
>
>
> Marlon Brown wrote:
> > In a security workshop today somebody mentioned that a safe passphrase
> > system is available on Windows (not sure if it is XP, 2003, 2000). That
> > should provide capabilities for end users use "dictionary" passwords
that
> > would be converted onto complex passwords in the background.
> >
> > I reasearched that information and I couldn't find anything about
Windows
> > offering that capability. I saw third party tools doing that job
though.
> >
> > Can somebody tell me if Windows offers passphrases features and if so,
point
> > me to that direction.
> >
> >

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