Password checker too big to check whether passwords are used up or mixed case

ByChristiaan Colen

"Password top 25 commonly used in 2016As you can see, there are a lot of people who use passwords of numbers or simple words as passwords. Even if it is not such a simple password, if you are using the same password with multiple services, it is possible that unauthorized access may be encountered in a formula that one's account information has leaked out. However, when the password is complicated and it is not used, it is quite troublesome to generate it, and a GIF image as if speaking of its troublesome is released.

GitHub - SirCmpwn / evilpass: Slightly evil password strength checker
https://github.com/SirCmpwn/evilpass

This is the GIF image.


What is displayed is the account creation screen, first enter the user name ......


Then enter your email address and password. I tried to create an account by clicking "Sign up" ......


"Passwords must contain at least one capital letter, one lowercase letter, and a number," warned me to set a stronger password. These warnings are of a type that is sometimes seen on recent password entry screens.


Following that, entering a password with uppercase letters, lowercase letters and numbers mixed ... ...


Next is the display saying "Your password must be at least 8 characters long."


Certainly it is easy to decipher a password with a small number of characters, so when I enter a password of more than 8 letters ......


"Please use a password different from Twitter" was displayed. In other words, this password checker warned the user to check the password used by SNS etc, and set a different password so that the user can set up a secure password.


To this, the user who was trying to create an account also got confused as "Ummm ......"


This is not a password checker implemented in the actual account creation screen etc., but it is for GitHub usersSirCmpwnThe source code has been made publicly available.

GitHub - SirCmpwn / evilpass: Slightly evil password strength checker