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August 08, 2003Showing Password Strength by the Effective Bit SizeRecently I found a need to make a better Password Dialog box for Windows. I have been observing people using sloppy passwords a bit to much, and realized that thanks to the "SSL cert" bit-strength marketing that has been driven into so many people's head... that many people realize a 56-bit key is weaker than a 128-bit key (duh). Using that to my advantage I made a dialog/form that will show the effective bit strength based on the password entered. I won't go into detail here, as I wrote an article about it and put the source code to it up on Code Project. I ended up writing it in C# so its cross-language on .NET (already know one guy using it in VB), and can easily be inserted into any Solution in Developer Studio that supports it. Have fun with it. Posted by SilverStr at August 8, 2003 10:26 AM |
 
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