Attackr.com » Developer Portal for web designers, developers and programmers http://www.attackr.com Come To Share, Come To Learn Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:09:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Testing Password Strength Using Google http://www.attackr.com/testing-password-strength-using-google/ http://www.attackr.com/testing-password-strength-using-google/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:59:02 +0000 James http://www.attackr.com/?p=207 Passwords are very important because with passwords we are able to protect our confidential data from being accessed by the wrong people. So that is why it is very important that we use a complex password BUT easy to remember when choosing your password.

As far as I know, strong passwords must contain numbers, letters and symbols. Have you chosen a strong password for example for your email account? Well then, let’s test whether that password is strong or not.

So how do you test it? The easy way is by using Google. I love Google since it has a lot of hidden services and hacks. Google has tried to help us by creating a new service (although not yet advertised) that will give a security rating for every password as follows:

  1. Not secure
  2. Adequate
  3. Could use some improvment
  4. This is secure

At this point, the page only shows the number relating to how secure the password is without any explanation of what it means, so bear in mind the score and refer to the legend above.

To see how secure your password is, use the form below. The response will be a number which you can compare to the list above to see how secure it is.

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