CF_PASSWORDCHECKER
Ver 1.2 - 9 Oct 2001
By Tom Nunamaker, Paladin Computers

CF_PASSWORDCHECKER is an open source Cold Fusion Custom Tag to help you ensure your users are entering safe passwords. Since it is a server side script, you'll need to write JavaScript code or use CFINPUT for client-side validation.

Yes, this is yet another password checker. I created a 53,282 word data dictionary with the ability to query it and check for dictionary names, compare a confirmation password with the actual password, force user to have UPPER and LOWER case letters, force users to include a number in their password and force users to have a "special" character in their passwords (basically, anything that's not alphanumeric). You can also exclude a list of characters that users can pick and disallow spaces in the password.

It's open source and FREE so just give me credit and modify it all you want. All I ask is for you to submit any changes to me so I can update the tag for everyone. Uses REFind which I think was a CFAS 4.0 addition. Since it's open source, you could modify that function and make this work with earlier versions of CFAS.

This tag will let you build passwords that comply with the new US Air Force password standard. That standard requires passwords to contain at least one of each of an uppercase character, a lowercase character, a number and a special character and the username cannot be contained within the password.


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