diff -up cracklib-2.9.6/lib/fascist.c.simplistic cracklib-2.9.6/lib/fascist.c

--- cracklib-2.9.6/lib/fascist.c.simplistic	2015-10-22 18:21:51.099748012 +0200

+++ cracklib-2.9.6/lib/fascist.c	2015-10-22 18:21:51.101748060 +0200

@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ static char *r_destructors[] = {

     "/?p@?p",                   /* purging out punctuation/symbols/junk */

     "/?s@?s",

-    "/?X@?X",

     /* attempt reverse engineering of password strings */

@@ -454,6 +453,12 @@ GTry(rawtext, password)

 	    continue;

 	}

+	if (len - strlen(mp) >= 3)

+	{

+	    /* purged too much */

+	    continue;

+	}

+

 #ifdef DEBUG

 	printf("%-16s = %-16s (destruct %s)\n", mp, rawtext, r_destructors[i]);

 #endif

@@ -480,6 +485,12 @@ GTry(rawtext, password)

 	    continue;

 	}

+	if (len - strlen(mp) >= 3)

+	{

+	    /* purged too much */

+	    continue;

+	}

+

 #ifdef DEBUG

 	printf("%-16s = %-16s (construct %s)\n", mp, password, r_constructors[i]);

 #endif

@@ -699,6 +710,7 @@ FascistLookUser(PWDICT *pwp, char *instr

     char rpassword[STRINGSIZE];

     char area[STRINGSIZE];

     uint32_t notfound;

+    int len;

     notfound = PW_WORDS(pwp);

     /* already truncated if from FascistCheck() */

@@ -748,6 +760,7 @@ FascistLookUser(PWDICT *pwp, char *instr

 	return _("it is all whitespace");

     }

+    len = strlen(password);

     i = 0;

     ptr = password;

     while (ptr[0] && ptr[1])

@@ -759,10 +772,9 @@ FascistLookUser(PWDICT *pwp, char *instr

 	ptr++;

     }

-    /*  Change by Ben Karsin from ITS at University of Hawaii at Manoa.  Static MAXSTEP

-        would generate many false positives for long passwords. */

-    maxrepeat = 3+(0.09*strlen(password));

-    if (i > maxrepeat)

+    /*  We were still generating false positives for long passwords.

+        Just count systematic double as a single character. */

+    if (len - i < MINLEN)

     {

 	return _("it is too simplistic/systematic");

     }

@@ -795,6 +807,12 @@ FascistLookUser(PWDICT *pwp, char *instr

 	    continue;

 	}

+	if (len - strlen(a) >= 3)

+	{

+	    /* purged too much */

+	    continue;

+	}

+

 #ifdef DEBUG

 	printf("%-16s (dict)\n", a);

 #endif

@@ -815,6 +833,13 @@ FascistLookUser(PWDICT *pwp, char *instr

 	{

 	    continue;

 	}

+

+	if (len - strlen(a) >= 3)

+	{

+	    /* purged too much */

+	    continue;

+	}

+

 #ifdef DEBUG

 	printf("%-16s (reversed dict)\n", a);

 #endif

diff -up cracklib-2.9.6/util/cracklib-format.simplistic cracklib-2.9.6/util/cracklib-format

--- cracklib-2.9.6/util/cracklib-format.simplistic	2015-10-22 18:21:51.101748060 +0200

+++ cracklib-2.9.6/util/cracklib-format	2014-07-09 17:24:45.000000000 +0200

@@ -3,8 +3,10 @@

 # This preprocesses a set of word lists into a suitable form for input

 # into cracklib-packer

 #

+LC_ALL=C

+export LC_ALL

 gzip -cdf "$@" |

-    grep -v '^\(#\|$\)' |

-    tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' |

-    tr -cd '\012[a-z][0-9]' |

-    env LC_ALL=C sort -u

+    grep -a -E -v '^.{30,}$' |

+    tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' |

+    tr -cd '\n[:graph:]' |

+    sort -u