Check your Password Quality

The Password Quality Check tool evaluates the quality of a password based on several security criteria and is ideal for use in security awareness training. The tool checks, among other things:

• Length and complexity: It analyzes whether the password is sufficiently long and uses a good combination of upper and lower case letters, numbers, and special characters.
• Symbol usage: Many users use special characters only at the beginning or end of the password – a known, weak pattern. The tool detects such typical weaknesses.
• Word components: The tool recognizes frequently used words in several languages (including German, English, and Spanish) as well as password components from the internal binsec word list.
• BSI guidelines: It checks whether the password complies with the recommendations of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).
• Database comparison: The internal binsec Hash Database is used to check whether the password appears in known breach lists (e.g. rockyou.txt).