Password strength meter

Fergus Morrow fergus.to.mod at gmail.com
Mon Nov 1 20:12:37 GMT 2004


I agree.


On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:39:11 +0200, Enrico Ros <eros.kde at email.it> wrote:
> On Friday 29 October 2004 13:05, Andrew Coles wrote:
> 
> 
> > I recently discovered a nice feature in Mozilla - in the master password
> > dialogue there's a 'Password strength meter', which gives a rough
> > indication of how good the password is (capitals, numbers, symbols etc.).
> >
> > I've implemented the same feature in KPassDlg; obviously, I won't commit it
> > unless it's approved.  The diff is available at:
> >
> > http://cis.strath.ac.uk/~ac/kpassdlg.cpp.diff
> >
> > Any comments?
> 
> Looks good and maybe it even helps user to pick the best password between the
> ones he/she has in mind. I'm going to change 3 letters of my pwd to capitals
> right now.
> Maybe a case insensitive check against tokenized user name (or other user's
> personals) should be added.
> Great work Andrew.
> 
> Just my 0.02€
> 
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