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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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Subscribe to commentsdnutzMar 24th 2008 1:56PM
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%
Tara KellyMar 25th 2008 8:45AM
I don't know what that percentage stands for, but I'm getting
fG#2343fF**dR|||
as 82bit on both Keepass and PassPack.
RobDMar 24th 2008 2:38PM
Feed my passwords, UNENCRYPTED, to an unknown party to "test their strength". I don't think so.
flatluigiMar 24th 2008 4:13PM
This doesn't seem to be that good:
'password123' scores 41% while 'downs*PASSword10' scores 0%. For that matter, 'password1' scores 21%.
AndrewMar 24th 2008 4:22PM
!@#$%^&*()
Perfect 10.
MarkMar 24th 2008 5:09PM
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.
nmanguyMar 24th 2008 5:11PM
Keepass is way better at telling you how strong a password is.
JamesMar 28th 2008 1:27PM
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.
raedenceApr 19th 2008 2:18PM
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mzburfMay 18th 2008 10:15AM
I'm not web-savvy but my concern is what if this website(www.passwordmeter.com) is trying to get our password for their own scam uses? By entering our passwords or potential passwords they would have them...right?
Thanks!