Security - Password Blacklist
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Overview
A blacklist is an explicit list of excluded passwords. Blacklists are useful to improve the security of passwords. As computers get faster and stronger, password after password can quickly be fired and using common passwords is an easy way to break into systems.
bxp has an ever growing list of commonly used passwords.
Here is a good resource on which we've based the start of the build of the engine.
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