OmegaSoft Development Blog
Password research
04 October 2006 - 03:16 PM
We've developed a little tool, that can help you choose a strong password.
It uses a variety of different clauses, to analyse the password you give it, and from those clauses, it assigns it points, depending on whether is satisfies the criteria. Likewise, if your password is beyond poor, than it deducts points.
No information is stored by OmegaSoft, and we do not have access to any passwords you enter.
A poor password is defined as something that is accessible from a dictionary and consists of very few characters. (for example, your dogs name: bart)
A strong password is defined as a term that may not be found in a dictionary, which contains a mix of numbers, symbols (IE: colons, asterix's etc) and characters in a random order. (for example: hdj8@hd:h7jsdnj)
This tool utilises the PathSearch index lexicon to identify common words in your passwords.
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