Telepathwords: A New Password Strength Estimator
Telepathwords is a pretty clever research project that tries to evaluate password strength. It’s different from normal strength meters, and I think better.
Telepathwords tries to predict the next character of your passwords by using knowledge of:
- common passwords, such as those made public as a result of security breaches
- common phrases, such as those that appear frequently on web pages or in common search queries
- common password-selection behaviors, such as the use of sequences of adjacent keys
Password-strength evaluators have generally been pretty poor, regularly assessing weak passwords as strong (and vice versa). I like seeing new research in this area.
Winter • December 6, 2013 6:49 AM
In a 36 character passphrase (battery staples style) it guessed 21 leaving me with a 15 character password. I think it missed all five spaces which looks like a shortcoming.
Btw, 36 seems to be the maximum as the original phrase was much longer.