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Re:The Top 50 Gawker Media Passwords by RickHull on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @10:15PM (#2010981)
Yes, this would suffice. But I think it points out that a duplicate password is just a proxy for a weak password: strong passwords tend to be locally unique.

If you are going to have a strength requirement, then run your strength validation routine and deny weak passwords. That a password is duplicated seems like a special case of weakness that is not worth checking for.

i.e. You probably don't want special checks for 'password' or '123456' either, since your strength validation routine should catch these.

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