I like when websites incorporate a password integrity checker when setting up an account with them. It gives you confidence, that your password won’t be hacked. That is of course, if you have a additional security measures for your ‘Forgot Your Password’ questions, such as what town were you born in?
I wanted to find out how secure my already created passwords are and doing a quick search, discovered a few interesting and innovative ones, like PasswordStrength.net and PasswordMeter.com, but neither seemed very accurate. My incredibly strong passwords, registered very weak on both.
Ironically, the easiest and most trustworthy I found was from Microsoft…It seems fairly accurate, and is a great tool to have, for future password integrity checking.
Password Checker from Microsoft
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Tue, Nov 11, 2008
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