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 ...

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.

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

New research exposes the weakness of password strength meters, and shows consumers should remain skeptical when the bar turns green in order to create strong passwords.

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.