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Bug#346113: wamerican: Security bug?

Subject: Bug#346113: wamerican: Security bug?
From: "David Coe"
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:20:12 +0200
Newsgroups: linux.debian.bugs.dist
Thanks for your comment.

I think it's a bit of a stretch to call that a security bug; yes, it's a bug, and I'll fix it when I can, and anyone else is welcome to fix it before I get to it.  If you're doing dictionary attacks, you shjould be aware of the quality of the dictionary data you're using; if you want a huge list of words, install the scowl package (form which all the american, canadian, and british word lists are generated).


On 8/31/06, Patrick McFarland <diablod3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Package: wamerican
Version: 6-2
Followup-For: Bug #346113



Technically, isn't wamerican-large being tiny a security bug? How can
people perform dictionary attacks with tools that rely on wamerican
without a lot of words?

Also, don't spell checkers rely on wamerican? This would be useful
functionality to have rarely used words available to check against.


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