For example, the more characters you include, the higher your score. The same goes for the type of characters. If you use upper and lower case letters, numbers, and symbols, you're probably in good shape. You'll be docked points if you use just number or just letters, and if you repeat characters you're docked more points.
If you've got too much free time on your hands, you can use another tool we previously covered, Strong Password Generator to create secure passwords and then enter them into the Password Meter to see how they fare. But good luck actually remembering the random passwords created by Strong Password Generator.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
3-24-2008 @ 1:56PM
dnutz said...
the % doesn't seem to make much sense. Try this for a password:
fG#2343fF**dR|||
it gets a 0% for it's score....
that's somehow worse than a password of 'bob' which gets a 1%
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3-25-2008 @ 8:45AM
Tara Kelly said...
I don't know what that percentage stands for, but I'm getting
fG#2343fF**dR|||
as 82bit on both Keepass and PassPack.
3-24-2008 @ 2:38PM
RobD said...
Feed my passwords, UNENCRYPTED, to an unknown party to "test their strength". I don't think so.
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3-24-2008 @ 4:13PM
flatluigi said...
This doesn't seem to be that good:
'password123' scores 41% while 'downs*PASSword10' scores 0%. For that matter, 'password1' scores 21%.
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3-24-2008 @ 4:22PM
Andrew said...
!@#$%^&*()
Perfect 10.
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3-24-2008 @ 5:09PM
Mark said...
Yeah, this program is awful. I never got the point of programs like this anyway. Is it really that hard to make up a strong password without a program helping you? It's common sense.
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3-24-2008 @ 5:11PM
nmanguy said...
Keepass is way better at telling you how strong a password is.
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3-28-2008 @ 1:27PM
James said...
Totally ignore the summary % meter -- it looks like they broke the math to tally all the component parts. Just look at the individual scores and add them up yourself -- I think if the score goes over 100%, it might be truncating it to the last 2 digits or something. Either that, or they're penalizing for Deductions as a multiplicative (rather than additive) penalty.
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4-19-2008 @ 2:18PM
raedence said...
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