Strength Test: Test The Strength Of Your Password

It is very important to have strong passwords on your personal accounts, it should be at least 8 characters or longer, include a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols. If your password is weak it will be much easier for hackers to break it and you risk to compromise your personal data.

To test the strength of your password try out online password Strength Test. Just enter your password into provided box and the test will evaluate it’s strength as you type, clearly telling if it is easy to hack.

test the strength of your password

In case the password strength test found that your password is weak then password generators like PassPub, Password Chart and SafePasswd can help you to come up with something stronger.

Features:

  • Check the password strength online.
  • Displays strength of the password as you type.
  • No signup needed.
  • Other password strength checkers: Brute Force Calculator and Password Meter.

Check out StrengthTest @ www.rumkin.com/tools/password/passchk

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2009-04-01 07:46:05
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I was quite disappointed by this one

I tried it with various password and then tried them on passwordmeter.com

The results were widely different. Passchk seems more interested in length than complexity

Surely a combination of the two is better?

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