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.

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 ...

Writing for Sophos, he explained that password meters only attempt to measure how long it would take to crack the password. A meter on the website typically suggests you use a long password with ...

In turns out that the subjects who were presented with either type of meter picked significantly "stronger" passwords than those in the control group. The average zero-order entropy of passwords ...

Website password strength meters, like a spouse asked to assess your haircut or outfit, often tell you only what you want to hear. That’s the finding from researchers at Concordia University in ...

Specifically, researchers at Concordia University in Montreal found that the same password will often yield inconsistent results across varying password strength meters on different websites.