15 Example JQuery Password Strength Meter with Tutorial

Password strength is extremely important to keep your data secure. As web developers we need a way to show our users the strength of their password. Below is a list that will allow you to add a Password Strength meter using jQuery to improve website security for user.

Guiding users to have a strong password with the help of password strength meters, besides being an easy process, will help improving the security of the whole & show that the website pays attention to it. You may interest my previous post 10 jQuery Captcha and 35 Useful jQuery/JavaScript Popup Window Dialog Box

Here are useful 10 jQuery password strength meter scripts for a better form interface:

1. Password Strength Meter (a jquery plugin)

The Password strength procedure is working as the follow:
We have many cases to care about to know a password strength , so we will present a global variable score , and each case will add some points to score. At the end of the algorithm we will decide the password strength according to the score value.

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2. The Password Meter

This application is designed to assess the strength of password strings. The instantaneous visual feedback provides the user a means to improve the strength of their passwords, with a hard focus on breaking the typical bad habits of faulty password formulation

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3. The ultimate password strength meter

Using prototype/scriptaculous, I stole some code from ZeBadger (thanks!) and created a new meter which dynamically changes while typing your password.

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4. jQuery Password Strength Meter

Password Strength Meter is a jQuery plug-in provide you smart algorithm to detect a password strength.

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5. Javascript Password Strength Meter

What makes a strong password? This quick and dirty password strength meter is meant to help users learn how to create stronger passwords. Because it’s written in Javascript the password is never sent over the network

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6. Password strength meter

There is no submit button, just fill in a password to check it’s strength. How to make a password strength meter for your register form. It has more than 6 characters. The longer the password is, the harder to crack it using brute force attack.

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7. ASP.NET – Password Strength Indicator using jQuery and XML

The solution I proposed was to use jQuery to display the password strength meter to help users create strong password. Then one of my colleagues had asked “Do we have to modify the client-side script, code behind and password policy page if the client decided to alter the password policy?” The answer is “no”, thanks to jQuery, the client-side script and code behind can share the same XML file. The password policy information is stored to an XML file and the client-side script and code behind are using the information in the XML file to perform the password strength validation.

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8. Password Strength Indicator and Generator

Sometimes you want to show your user the strength of their password and although there a quite a few jQuery “plugins” that do this there are none – that I’ve found – that let you set the class of an element so that you can do a graphical representation of the strength

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9. Password Strength Test Hacker Days

Password Strength tries to calculate how many possibilities the hacker needs to try to guess your password. It makes the assumption that it is possible to test 2800 000 000 of passwords per second – something that, according to ElcomSoft, is possible with Windows Vista passwords, a high end graphics card and the ElcomSoft Distributed Password Recovery software.

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10. A rich password widget for your web forms

Here is a password field widget that not only has a password strength meter but also has other essential features that your users would love to have.

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11. Complexify Password Strength

Complexify aims to provide a good measure of password complexity for websites to use both for giving hints to users in the form of strength bars, and for casually enforcing a minimum complexity for security reasons.