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author | Eli Collins <elic@assurancetechnologies.com> | 2017-06-06 12:04:42 -0400 |
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committer | Eli Collins <elic@assurancetechnologies.com> | 2017-06-06 12:04:42 -0400 |
commit | 98217ac46e46d10d0968764fda2167edc595c08c (patch) | |
tree | bfe45e055f1e6fbc0353acb719131bfce49ad87f | |
parent | c8fb988565ecd80873c124c3f38d38b015fe5a48 (diff) | |
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docs: updated password generation section to endorze 'zxcvbn-python' over alternate forks
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diff --git a/docs/lib/passlib.pwd.rst b/docs/lib/passlib.pwd.rst index de4ee50..c830e1b 100644 --- a/docs/lib/passlib.pwd.rst +++ b/docs/lib/passlib.pwd.rst @@ -43,20 +43,10 @@ but are exported by this module for general use: Password Strength Estimation ============================ -Passlib does not current offer any password strength estimation routines. +Passlib does not currently offer any password strength estimation routines. However, the (javascript-based) `zxcvbn <https://github.com/dropbox/zxcvbn>`_ -project is a very good choice. There are a few python ports of ZCVBN library, though as of 2016-11, -none of them seem active and up to date. +project is a *very* good choice. -The following is a list of known ZCVBN python ports, though it's not clear which of these -is active and/or official: - -* https://github.com/dropbox/python-zxcvbn -- seemingly official python version, - but not updated since 2013, and not published on pypi. - -* https://github.com/rpearl/python-zxcvbn -- fork of official version, - also not updated since 2013, but released to pypi as `"zxcvbn" <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/zxcvbn>`_. - -* https://github.com/gordon86/python-zxcvbn -- fork that has some updates as of july 2015, - released to pypi as `"zxcvbn-py3" <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/zxcvbn-py3>`_ (and compatible - with 2 & 3, despite the name). +Though there are a few different python ports of ZCVBN library, as of 2017-3-3, +`zxcvbn-python <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/zxcvbn-python>` is the most up-to-date, +and is endorsed by the upstream zxcvbn developers. |