But how do you know if your password is strong enough? Head to The Password Meter, a free service that rates the strength of your password based on a number of criteria.

The password meters presented to the test subjects used "zero-order entropy," a technique many meters use to measure password strength.

According to a series of tests, a number of password security meters fail to identify passwords that are susceptible to cracking.

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But according to Mark Stockley at Naked Security, password strength meters have pretty much stayed the same. Last March, Stockley tested five popular password strength meters and they all failed.

If you’ve ever made an online account, then you’ve come across a password strength meter—that little thing that encourages you to add a little more complexity to your credentials. And, if ...

These tips set the password strength meter apart from other meters that provide an estimated password strength, often using colors.

Password strength meters that offer web surfers a visual gauge of how weak or strong a chosen lock may be are increasingly present on websites – but how effective are they at getting folks to choose ...

For instance, some password strength checkers consider any password with more than X number of characters to be strong, even if they are the same character repeated over-and-over again, or even if the ...