Hi, I was wondering what people's thoughts were regarding the product Novell eDirectory. I've had a quick look at the implementation and have found that eDirectory's passwords are case-insensitive. Comparing this to case sensitive passwords this radically reduces the number of passwords the system can use. ie. Case Sensitive Case Insensitive 26 52 Alpha 10 10 Numeric 26 26 Special ---- ---- 62 88 Thus for a password 8 characters long we get the following number of combinations respectively. 62^8-1 88^8-1 This means that case sensitive passwords are 16.47 times stronger than case insensitive. Could I deduce that from this using Active Directory vs. eDirectory, AD is 16.47 times stronger with passwords than secure in a password sense? Is this a fair statement? Regards Steven ---------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer.
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