AH JavaScript Password Strength Check: Calculate and display the strength of a password

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This object can calculate and display the strength of a password.

It can listen to changes in a given form password input.

When the user enters a new password, the object calculates a factor that determines the strength of the password based om given requirements and displays messages to let the user know about the password quality.

The object can consider requirements like length of typed characters, upper and lower case characters, digits and special characters.

The message templates can be changed to support other languages. The output of the messages can be customized with CSS. It also allows changing the requirements for a check, as well the weights for scoring.

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When a user enters a password on a site, it is often useful to let him know how easy it may be to guess that password, so the user enters a better one.

This object can show the strength of a given password as the user enters it on a form input.

It can configure the strength parameters based on the number of letters, digits and punctuation that the user entered.

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password check (ahpwcheck.class.js)

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Javascript class for optical verification of an entered password. You can define count of required letters, digits and special chars. This class shows fulfilled requirements while a user types his (new) password.

* Author: Axel Hahn * project home: <https://github.com/axelhahn/ahpwcheck> * licence: GNU GPL * see documentation: <http://www.axel-hahn.de/docs/ahpwcheck/index.htm>

examples

watch a password field and show requirements

var oPwCheck = new ahpwcheck(aOptions);
oPwCheck.watch(
    [id of password field],
    [id of div for output]
);

Show a score

var oPwCheck = new ahpwcheck(aOptions);
alert(oPwCheck.getScore('My:0815;Password');

see example html files in the package and the section Get started in the documentation: <http://www.axel-hahn.de/docs/ahpwcheck/get_started.htm>

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