Are passwords with words really safer than passwords with complex characters?

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/crypto

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  • zxcvbn

    Low-Budget Password Strength Estimation

  • zxcvbn is abandonware. Last commit was almost 4 years ago, in October 2017 updating the readme. It's certainly better than most of the competition, but it's also not designed for end users to test their password against. The library is built for organizations/services that provide authentication to give an idea to end users what the they think the strength of their password might be.

  • Bitwarden

    The core infrastructure backend (API, database, Docker, etc). (by bitwarden)

  • At least check this out: https://bitwarden.com/

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • keepassxc

    KeePassXC is a cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application “Keepass Password Safe”.

  • you should use a password manager to have truly random, lengthy, unique passwords without having to memorize every single one.

  • SecLists

    SecLists is the security tester's companion. It's a collection of multiple types of lists used during security assessments, collected in one place. List types include usernames, passwords, URLs, sensitive data patterns, fuzzing payloads, web shells, and many more.

  • There used to be a website with lots of database dumps called hashes.org, but that has been down for almost a year. You can see the web archives of it here . You can also look at common passwords and a number of cracked databases here.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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