Below you will find my schedule for Mon - Wed at DEC 2008. The sessions I've decided to go on are in light turquoises. If I haven't decided, there will be two white squares.
I am concentrating on the AD aspects of the conference and ignoring ILM and Federated Identity.
There is also a Welcome reception on Sunday.
This one was fun. Although, I knew what a Prime number is, I don't think I've ever learned methods to find them. The method I used is fine for a small number, but really wouldn't scale.
Advanced Event 6 in the Microsoft Scripting Games 2008.
1: '*********************************************************************
2: ' Script Name: Event6.vbs
3: ' Version: 1.0
4: ' Author: Perry Harris (PHactotum)
5: ' Updated: 8:45 AM Tuesday, February 26, 2008
6: ' Purpose: Solves the 2008 winter Scripting Games Advance
7: ' Event 6: Prime Time
8: '
9: ' Usage: cscript Event6.vbs
10: ' Notes:
11: ' Keywords:
12: ' versioning: 1.0 Original release
13: '*********************************************************************
14: Option Explicit
15: Dim StopPoint,StartPoint,i,j
16: Dim Primes
17: StopPoint = 200
18: StartPoint = 2
19: redim Primes(StopPoint + 1)
20: For i = StartPoint to StopPoint
21: Primes(i) = True
22: Next
23: For i = StartPoint to StopPoint
24: If Primes(i) = True then
25: WScript.StdOut.WriteLine i
26: End If
27: for j = i to StopPoint
28: If i*j <=StopPoint then Primes (i*j) = False
29: Next
30: Next
31:
32: I'm not sure how well this one went. I ran out of time and I'm not very good with regular expressions. Advanced Event 5 for the Microsoft Scripting Games 2008.
1: '*********************************************************************
2: ' Script Name: Event5.vbs
3: ' Version: 1.0
4: ' Author: Perry Harris (PHactotum)
5: ' Updated: 10:45 AM Tuesday, February 26, 2008
6: ' Purpose: Solves the 2008 winter Scripting Games Advance
7: ' Event 5: You Call That a Strong Password?
8: '
9: ' Usage: cscript Event5.vbs
10: ' Notes:
11: ' Keywords:
12: ' versioning: 1.0 Original release
13: '*********************************************************************
14: 'Option Explicit
15: Const ForReading = 1
16: Dim strPassword
17: Dim intPassScore
18: Dim objRegEx
19: Dim objFS, objFile
20:
21: Set objRegEx = CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp")
22: intPassScore = 13
23:
24: if WScript.Arguments.Count < 1 then
25: WScript.StdOut.Write "Please enter your password to test: "
26: strPassword = WScript.StdIn.ReadLine
27: else
28: strPassword = WScript.Arguments(0)
29: end if
30:
31: 'Open and read our WordList, we'll need this for some of the tests.
32: Set objFS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
33: Set objFile = objFS.OpenTextFile("C:\Scripts\wordlist.txt", ForReading)
34:
35: strAll = objFile.Readall
36:
37: ' Test one: Make sure that the password is not an actual word.
38: objRegEx.Pattern = ucase(strPassword) & "\r\n"
39: Set colMatches = objRegEx.Execute(ucase(strAll))
40:
41: If colMatches.Count > 0 Then
42: Wscript.StdOut.WriteLine "Password is found in the dictionary"
43: intPassScore = intPassScore - 1
44: End If
45:
46: ' Test two: Make sure that the password, minus the last letter, is not an actual word.
47: objRegEx.Pattern = ucase(left(strPassword,len(strPassword)-1)) & "\r?\n"
48: Set colMatches = objRegEx.Execute(ucase(strAll))
49:
50: If colMatches.Count > 0 Then
51: Wscript.StdOut.WriteLine "Password, minus the last letter, is found in the dictionary"
52: intPassScore = intPassScore - 1
53: End If
54:
55: ' Test three: Make sure that the password, minus the first letter, is not an actual word.
56: objRegEx.Pattern = "\r\n" & ucase(right(strPassword,len(strPassword)-1)) & "\r\n"
57: Set colMatches = objRegEx.Execute(ucase(strAll))
58:
59: If colMatches.Count > 0 Then
60: Wscript.StdOut.WriteLine "Password, minus the first letter, is found in the dictionary"
61: intPassScore = intPassScore - 1
62: End If
63:
64: ' Test four: Make sure that the password does not simply substitute 0 (zero) for the letter o (either an uppercase O or a lowercase o).
65: if instr(strPassword,"0") then
66: objRegEx.Pattern = ucase(replace(strPassword,0,"o")) & "\r\n"
67: Set colMatches = objRegEx.Execute(ucase(strAll))
68:
69: If colMatches.Count > 0 Then
70: Wscript.StdOut.WriteLine "Password is found in the dictionary after replacing zeros with ""o"""
71: intPassScore = intPassScore - 1
72: End If
73: end if
74:
75: ' Test five: Make sure that the password does not simply substitute 1 (one) for the letter l (either an uppercase L or a lowercase l).
76: if instr(strPassword,"1") then
77: objRegEx.Pattern = ucase(replace(strPassword,1,"l")) & "\r\n"
78: Set colMatches = objRegEx.Execute(ucase(strAll))
79:
80: If colMatches.Count > 0 Then
81: Wscript.StdOut.WriteLine "Password is found in the dictionary after replacing ones with ""l"""
82: intPassScore = intPassScore - 1
83: End If
84: end if
85:
86: ' Test six: Make sure that the password is at least 10 characters long but no more than 20 characters long.
87: If Len(strPassword) < 10 then
88: Wscript.StdOut.WriteLine "Password is two short"
89: intPassScore = intPassScore - 1
90: else if Len(strPassword) > 20 then
91: Wscript.StdOut.WriteLine "Password is two short"
92: intPassScore = intPassScore - 1
93: end if
94: end if
95:
96: ' Test seven: Make sure that the password includes at least one number (the digits 0 through 9).
97: objRegEx.Pattern = "\d"
98: Set colMatches = objRegEx.Execute(strPassword)
99:
100: If colMatches.Count = 0 Then
101: Wscript.StdOut.WriteLine "Password must contain at least one number (0-9)"
102: intPassScore = intPassScore - 1
103: End If
104:
105: ' Test eight: Make sure that the password includes at least one uppercase letter.
106: objRegEx.Pattern = "[A-Z]"
107: Set colMatches = objRegEx.Execute(strPassword)
108:
109: If colMatches.Count = 0 Then
110: Wscript.StdOut.WriteLine "Password must contain at least one upper case letter"
111: intPassScore = intPassScore - 1
112: End If
113:
114: ' Test nine: Make sure that the password includes at least one lowercase letter.
115: objRegEx.Pattern = "[a-z]"
116: Set colMatches = objRegEx.Execute(strPassword)
117:
118: If colMatches.Count = 0 Then
119: Wscript.StdOut.WriteLine "Password must contain at least one lower case letter"
120: intPassScore = intPassScore - 1
121: End If
122: ' Test ten: Make sure that the password includes at least one symbol.
123: objRegEx.Pattern = "[^A-Za-z0-9]"
124: Set colMatches = objRegEx.Execute(strPassword)
125:
126: If colMatches.Count = 0 Then
127: Wscript.StdOut.WriteLine "Password must contain at least one symbol"
128: intPassScore = intPassScore - 1
129: End If
130:
131: ' Test eleven: Make sure that the password does not include four (or more) lowercase letters in succession.
132: objRegEx.Pattern = "[a-z]{4,}"
133: Set colMatches = objRegEx.Execute(strPassword)
134:
135: If colMatches.Count > 0 Then
136: Wscript.StdOut.WriteLine "Password contains 4 or more lower case letters in succession"
137: intPassScore = intPassScore - 1
138: End If
139:
140: ' Test twelve: Make sure that the password does not include four (or more) uppercase letters in succession.
141: objRegEx.Pattern = "[A-Z]{4,}"
142: Set colMatches = objRegEx.Execute(strPassword)
143:
144: If colMatches.Count > 0 Then
145: Wscript.StdOut.WriteLine "Password contains 4 or more upper case letters in succession"
146: intPassScore = intPassScore - 1
147: End If
148:
149: ' Test thirteen: Make sure that the password does not include any duplicate characters.
150: objRegEx.Pattern = "(.)(.*\1)"
151: Set colMatches = objRegEx.Execute(strPassword)
152:
153: If colMatches.Count > 0 Then
154: Wscript.StdOut.WriteLine "Password contains duplicate characters"
155: intPassScore = intPassScore - 1
156: End If
157:
158: 'Final Score
159: WScript.StdOut.WriteLine
160: WScript.StdOut.Write "A password score of " & intPassScore
161: Select case intPassScore
162: case 11,12,13
163: WScript.StdOut.WriteLine " indicates a strong password."
164: case 7,8,9,10
165: WScript.StdOut.WriteLine " indicates a moderately-strong password."
166: case else
167: WScript.StdOut.WriteLine " indicates a weak password."
168: End select
Here is my submission for the Advanced Event 4 in the Microsoft Scripting Games 2008.
1: '*********************************************************************
2: ' Script Name: Event4.vbs
3: ' Version: 1.1
4: ' Author: Perry Harris (PHactotum)
5: ' Updated: 1:30 AM Friday, February 22, 2008
6: ' Purpose: Solves the 2008 winter Scripting Games Advance Event 4: Image is Everything
7: '
8: ' Usage: cscript Event4.vbs
9: ' Notes:
10: ' Keywords:
11: ' versioning: 1.0 Original release
12: ' 1.1 Modified to put lines in our calendar using + - and |
13: '*********************************************************************
14: Option Explicit
15: Dim intYear, i, intMonth
16: Dim strText
17: Dim StartDate, EndDate, CurrDate
18: Dim intLeft, intRight
19: Dim a
20:
21: 'Get the desired Month and Year for the Calendar
22: WScript.StdOut.Write "Please enter Month/Year using numeric digits: "
23: strText = WScript.StdIn.ReadLine
24:
25: 'Assuming the user used a / as the separator
26: a = split(strText,"/")