Created attachment 749442 [details]
partial fix: add roll-left and roll-right constructors

Created attachment 749443 [details]
partial fix: add more l33t-ish substitutions

These aren't integrated properly, but doing it in a way that wouldn't explode the destructors list would require redoing a few layers of logic.

Regarding patch in Comment #2: I don't know how the code later searches if the word is in wordlist or not, but I know that pam_cracklib does check if a password doesn't contain words as a substring of "passwordpassword". This finds not only repetitions but such simple barrel shifts like in the "ancingd" case.

Regarding patch in Comment #3: I'm not sure if I read the patch correctly, but the a -> . substitution was more to show that obfuscating a single character is enough to render cracklib useless, not an actual "l33t speak" substitution.
And second "I'm not sure if I read the patch correctly" is the 8 -> B substitution: doesn't cracklib do a case insensitive search over its wordlist?

(In reply to Hubert Kario from comment #4)
> Regarding patch in Comment #2: I don't know how the code later searches if
> the word is in wordlist or not, but I know that pam_cracklib does check if a
> password doesn't contain words as a substring of "passwordpassword". This
> finds not only repetitions but such simple barrel shifts like in the
> "ancingd" case.

The pam_cracklib module (and the cracklib python module, and apparently everything else that uses cracklib) implements additional logic beyond what cracklib does, so cracklib-check doesn't benefit from those efforts.

> Regarding patch in Comment #3: I'm not sure if I read the patch correctly,
> but the a -> . substitution was more to show that obfuscating a single
> character is enough to render cracklib useless, not an actual "l33t speak"
> substitution.
> And second "I'm not sure if I read the patch correctly" is the 8 -> B
> substitution: doesn't cracklib do a case insensitive search over its
> wordlist?

So it does.  That rule should be discarded from the patch, then.  As for the larger point, you're right, cracklib's doesn't catch everything.

I don't think this is RHEL-6 material. This should be changed in Fedora and RHEL-7 if at all.

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