User-Visible krb5-strength Changes

krb5-strength 1.1 (2012-05-11)

    Change the minimum password length in the embedded CrackLib to 8.

    Reject passwords formed from the username portion of the principal
    with digits appended.

    In the embedded CrackLib, also check for a duplicated dictionary word.

    Support linking with the system CrackLib instead of the embedded and
    stricter copy by passing --with-cracklib to configure.

    Fix variable sizes in the embedded CrackLib on 64-bit platforms.  This
    may fix interoperability problems with databases created on platforms
    with a different native integer size.  Thanks, Karl Lehnberger and
    Benj Carson.

    Stop using local in the test suite for portability to Solaris /bin/sh.

    Update to rra-c-util 4.4:

    * Use PATH_KRB5_CONFIG to override krb5-config location.
    * Fix probing for ibm_svc/krb5_svc.h on AIX.
    * Support Heimdal libraries without libroken, like OpenBSD.
    * Fix manual Kerberos library probing without transitive dependencies.
    * Support systems that only have krb5/krb5.h.
    * Pass --deps to krb5-config in the non-reduced-dependencies case.
    * Silence __attribute__ warnings on more compilers.
    * Update warning flags for make warnings.
    * Flesh out MAINTCLEANFILES to remove autogen results.
    * Add notices to all files copied from rra-c-util.

    Update to C TAP Harness 1.12:

    * Drop is_double from the C TAP library to avoid requiring -lm.
    * Avoid using local in the shell libtap.sh library.
    * Silence __attribute__ warnings on more compilers.
    * runtests now frees all allocated resources on exit.
    * Fix runtests to still honor SOURCE and -s without BUILD and -b.
    * Add tests/HOWTO documenting how to add new tests.
    * Ensure correct output ordering in test results.
    * Add -h and a better usage message to tests/runtests.

krb5-strength 1.0 (2010-02-16)

    Add heimdal-strength, a program that checks password strength using
    the protocol for a Heimdal external check program.

    The shared module now also exports the interface expected by Heimdal's
    dynamically loaded password strength checking API and can be used as a
    Heimdal kadmin plugin.

    Add a new plugin API for MIT Kerberos modelled after the plugin API
    used for other MIT Kerberos plugins.  Thanks to Marcus Watts for
    substantial research and contributions to the interface design.  This
    work is incomplete in this release, missing the corresponding patch to
    MIT Kerberos.

    Fixed the data format written by the included packer program to add
    enough nul bytes at the end of the data.  Previously, there was not
    enough trailing nul bytes for the expected input format, leading to
    uninitialized memory reads in the password lookup.

    Add a test suite using the driver and library from C TAP Harness 1.1.

    Add portability code for platforms without a working snprintf or other
    deficiencies and updated the code to take advantage of those
    guarantees.

krb5-strength 0.5 (2007-07-18)

    The check of the password against the principal checked against the
    fully-qualified principal, which is not the usual problem.
    Additionally check that the password doesn't match the principal with
    the realm removed or the reverse of that (case-insensitive).

krb5-strength 0.4 (2007-03-28)

    The patches directory was omitted from the distribution.  Really
    include it.

krb5-strength 0.3 (2007-03-23)

    Initial public release.  Includes a patch for MIT Kerberos, a slightly
    modified version of CrackLib, and glue wrapped around CrackLib to make
    a loadable module.