Password Strength Tester

Password Strength Meter - Test Password Strength

Simple passwords are easily cracked, which is why it's crucial to secure your accounts with strong passwords. Our password tester helps you check the strength of your password, making it easy to create strong, secure passwords.

How Does the Password Strength Checker Work?

Our password checker uses several criteria to test the strength of your passwords. Currently, it checks the following things to test your password strength.

• Password length (characters)
• Number of uppercase letters
• Number of lowercase letters
• Number of digits
• Number of “space” characters
• Number of symbols

The more of these things you add to your password, the stronger it will be. The password strength test is shown using a meter. The length, color, and label of the password change to show the strength.

Strength ranges from:

poor->weak->not great->better->strong

If your password gets ranked “better” or “strong,” then know that it is very difficult to crack with brute force and dictionary attacks.

What Is the Importance of a Strong Password?

Passwords are perhaps the most critical aspect of modern software security. Today, we use passwords to authenticate access to all of our accounts.

Our email, social media, and SaaS applications all require a username and a password to log in and use. Without a password, anyone can copy your username and use your accounts in any way they see fit.

Today, password protection is mandatory, but people do not put much thought into creating strong passwords. Well, here’s what happens if you don’t create a tough password.

What Happens When a Password Is Compromised?

If your password gets cracked or guessed easily, then the attacker can do one or more of the following things.

• Take control of your email account
• Log in to your banking app and steal all your money
• Scrape all your personally identifying data and commit identity theft, which can lead to further issues like taking out loans in your name
• Carry out a character assassination by engaging in suspicious or illegal online activity, thereby landing you in trouble.
• If your password is for your company account, then it will result in a massive data breach that will put millions of others at risk. According to Tripwire, the estimated average damage caused by a data breach is 45 million dollars.

Password cracking is still one of the most popular vectors of cyber attacks because passwords are the weakest link in security. You can easily expect someone to be lazy with their password or even have it written down somewhere where anyone can steal it.

Types of Password Cracking

There are two main types of password cracking.

Brute-forcing: The first one is called brute forcing. In this approach, a bot will attempt to input all possible combinations of characters in the hopes that one of the combinations is the correct one.

Brute forcing takes more time the longer and more complex the password is. For example, a password that is ten characters long and has one capital letter and one symbol will take five years to be cracked. On the other hand, a simple four-letter word will be cracked within a second.

That’s why you will notice that many websites don’t allow you to create small or simple passwords.

Dictionary attacks: A dictionary attack uses a list (a dictionary) of common passwords that people like to use. Passwords such as “123456” or the word “password” are present on this list.

A bot program quickly enters all of the listed passwords in the dictionary in the hopes that one of them might be the correct one. This approach is quite successful because many people create highly common and poorly thought-out passwords that are already present in the dictionary.

How to Create Secure Passwords?

To create a strong password, simply follow the criteria used by our password checker to test password strength.

Keeping those criteria in mind, here’s what you can do to generate strong passwords.

• The password length should be 12-16 characters or more because longer passwords are harder to guess and brute force.
• The password must be a combination of letters, numbers, and characters. Use uppercase, lowercase, and symbols to make it more effective.
• Never share your password with anyone unless you have a relationship of trust.
• Do not include your personal information, like your ID card number, birth date, etc., in your password.
• A password should not have a common phrase or some common dictionary word.
• Do not ever use the word "password" or the same number or letter repeatedly.
• An example of a secure password is +%79o-0vMgUP]4F@, generated by our Password Generator.

FAQs

Is it safe to use our password tester?

All passwords checked through this password tester are kept safe with your browser only. No password is sent to the server or anywhere outside your computer in any way.

The tool also checks the total characters, characters in upper and lowercase, numbers, space, and symbols in your mentioned passphrase.

How secure is my password?

Your password is considered more secure if it has more than ten characters and uses capitals, symbols, and spaces. However, even a password that satisfies all of these conditions can be easy to crack if it is really obvious.

You can check the security of your password by using our password checker, which will provide an objective measure of its strength. If the password is rated strong, then it is very secure.

What is a passphrase?

The passphrase is a password that consists of a sentence. Since it is a sentence, it is longer and has spaces and even punctuation. This makes it much harder to crack with brute force.

Passphrases are easy to remember as well, so you can avoid writing them down somewhere.

What are the other ways to protect yourself online?

No doubt, a strong password protects your account from any hacking attempts. But still, there are other practices that you must adopt for digital security.

• Use a VPN service to mask your IP address. Even though the strong password protects your account, the hackers can adopt other ways to get your IP, and from that, they can access an IP location. Therefore, if you receive an email, then first analyze its headers, and check whether that IP is in the blacklist database or not.
• Use antivirus software to frequently scan your phones, computers, and tablets for malware, viruses, ransomware, spyware, and other cyber threats.
• Use password managers like LastPass, Bitwarden, Keeper, and Dashlane to store your usernames and passwords in encrypted
• There is a common saying that you should change your password every 12 weeks. However, studies show that frequently changing your passwords tends to create patterns that can be easily guessed by attackers. So, only change them if you think there has been a breach, and make sure that the new password is completely different from the first one.
• Although the password protects your account, there is no single way to save a user's PII-related data (personally identifiable information) from identity theft. Therefore, different software is available that monitors key criminal and financial areas for users' personal information.