Passwordmeter

[slowfox]

This Password Strength Checker is an interesting tool.

It uses Google's javascript urchin.js to determine the strength of a password, based on the number of characters, whether or not you're using mixed case, letters, non-alpha-numerics and the like.

Obviously you don't feed it your real password (unless you're feeling particularly brave - it's running a script that's hosted on a different server!), but if you pass it constructs that are similar in nature, it'll give you a rough idea of how secure Google thinks that particular algorithm might be.

Comments

[yvi]

I have... 6 for personal accounts. Plus root passwords, which I wouldn't even dream about learning the hard way.

I just generally suck at learning passwords.

[slowfox]

Learning passwords is usually OK for me, although I do wish I'd learn from past mistakes and stop deciding to change my work machine's password on a Friday! (lots of practice, early on, helps cement the new key in the mind, I find)