dropbox/zxcvbn
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Low-Budget Password Strength Estimation
62 mentions on Hacker News by 58 people: 6 stories, 56 comments · first 2012-04-14 · latest 2024-10-18
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https://github.com/lowe/zxcvbn does a pretty good job of the same thing.
comment by bradbeattie · 2013-12-06 · in Telepathwords: A New Password Strength Estimator -
This wasn't about password strength calculation - this is really a question to the maintainers of https://github.com/lowe/zxcvbn .
comment by gtrubetskoy · 2013-06-01 · in Simple solution to the password reuse problem -
zxcvbn ( https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/209/zxcvbn/test/index.ht... , https://github.com/lowe/zxcvbn ) basically has this aim. It might be missing some patterns exploited in attacks, but it’s extensible enough that they shouldn’t be…
comment by roryokane · 2013-05-28 · in How crackers ransack passwords like “qeadzcwrsfxv1331” -
Regarding password strength checkers, see also https://github.com/lowe/zxcvbn
comment by pixelcort · 2013-05-08 · in Why Intel’s “How Strong is Your Password?” site can’t be trusted -
…entropy. Dropbox's zxcvbn tool[1] estimates that pass phrase at nearly 128 bits of entropy. [1] https://github.com/lowe/zxcvbn
comment by mistercow · 2013-04-13 · in Bitcoin Brain Wallets: A flawed, dangerous idea. -
…discussion, Niten. While digging around, I stumbled onto this tool which others might find helpful: https://github.com/lowe/zxcvbn zxcvbn, named after a crappy password, is a JavaScript password strength estimation library. Use it to…
comment by miles · 2013-03-02 · in Evernote hacked