Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Checking the quality of your passwords

Stumbled upon this Microsoft web-page that allows you to determine the strength of your passwords. Useful!

http://www.microsoft.com/protect/yourself/password/checker.mspx?WT.mc_id=C_PasswordChecker

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1 comment:

jdauie said...

Heh...that one's got some funny results...

wwwwww$ is a WEAK password, but
wwwwww$2 is a STRONG password.

I think its logic might be a bit simplified. There are a number of better password entropy checkers.