Passwords shall not contain any dictionary word???Any suggestion?

Question

we need to satisfy requirement tothe password:
Passwords shall not contain any dictionary word
Any suggestions?
TIA

Answer 1

I take it by dictionary word you mean a Webster style dictionary word rather than an Oracle reserved word.
The only practical way to do this is via rules such as already suggested rather than actually check the entered password against a dictionary table.
I would suggest that a numeric character within the first N characters be part of the rule. This would stop the use of a word followed by a digit such as word1.
It would not prevent the use real words as in, born2rule, but it would interrupt them and make them much harder to guess. A requirement of 2 numeric character digits or a puncuation symbol would also help.
Elimination of a couple of vowels such as 'a' and 'e' would make using real words much harder, but you do not want to limit too many characters as that could actually make hacking passwords easier.
HTH -- Mark D Powell --