Password Checker Online helps you to evaluate the strength of your
password. More
accurately, Password Checker Online checks the password strength against two
basic types of
password cracking
methods – the brute-force attack and the dictionary attack. It also analyzes
the syntax of your password and informs you about its possible weaknesses.
This tool can thus also help you create stronger password from a weak one.
Using Password Checker Online is safe in both the syntax analyzing
mode and the dictionary attack mode. When you type your password to the
Password field its syntax is analyzed on the client side, by
JavaScript in your browser – i.e. the password is not transferred over the
network to our server. You can also have your password checked against the
dictionary attack. In this case the password is sent to our server in an
encrypted form so you do not need to worry about attackers sniffing on your
network. However, the implementation is not safe against
man-in-the-middle attacks.
The score computation is mostly based on the time that a middle size botnet
would need in order to crack your password if it employs the brute-force
attack. An attacker typically tries several most common passwords first
therefore if your password belongs to the list of 10000 most common
passwords your password receives score 0 because these passwords are
extremely weak.
There are important attributes of your password that an automatic tool such
as Password Checker Online can not evaluate. When you create your password you
should keep in your mind that it should not contain any information that is
related to you or the system in which the password is used. You should also
avoid using same or similar passwords in different systems – e.g. you should
use completely different passwords for your social network account and for
your email account.
Simply enter the password you want to check into the Password
field and that is it! The password is being analyzed as you are
typing it, so you see the results of the syntax analysis immediately.
If you want to check your password against the dictionary attack click the
"Check!" button in the dictionary attack section. Be patient, the dictionary
attack check may take a few seconds to complete.
One IP address is allowed to execute the dictionary attack check of Password
Checker Online no more than 10 times per hour and no more than
80 times per day. Using the syntax analysis is not limited.
