Notes: The tool sends passwords to OpenAI in plain text. Using this tool carries the risk of exposing your password. Please be aware of the potential risks.

Password-Strength-Checker (psc)

Check the password strength via OpenAI

Follow up blog at Revolutionizing Password Strength Evaluation with OpenAI: A New Open Source Project — PSC

Usage

Prepare your OpenAI API Key

Way 1 is, set environment variable

export OPENAI_API_KEY="<replace with your openai api key>"

Way 2 is, put the key to local .env

mv .env.sample .env

update the API key with yours

Run psc tool directly

Download the binary from release

Choice the suitable OS for your environment

uncompress and run it

# for example, from my macbook
$ wget https://github.com/AbacusGPT/Password-Strength-Checker/releases/download/v1.0.13/psc-1.0.13-darwin-amd64.tar.gz 

$ tar zxvf psc-1.0.13-darwin-amd64.tar.gz

$ mv psc-1.0.13-darwin-amd64 psc

$ ./psc --password 'Pass!234'
weak

$ ./psc --password '62sWJFk28gVnXK3u'
strong

Only for mac user, you need allow applications downloaded from "App Store and identified developers" in "Privacy & Security" setting.

build by yourself

• Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/AbacusGPT/Password-Strength-Checker

• Prepare your OpenAI API Key

Way 1 is, set environment variable

export OPENAI_API_KEY="<replace with your openai api key>"

Way 2 is, put the key to local .env

mv .env.sample .env

update the API key with yours

• run the build

go build -o psc .

You should see a binary file psc generated locally

• run the test now

./psc --password 'Pass!234'
weak

$ ./psc --password '62sWJFk28gVnXK3u'
strong

run tests

$ go test
Password 'Pass!234', Run 1: Result - strong
Password 'Pass!234', Run 2: Result - weak
Password 'Pass!234', Run 3: Result - weak
Password 'Pass!234', Run 4: Result - weak
Password 'Pass!234', Run 5: Result - weak
Password 'Pass!234', Run 6: Result - strong
Password 'Pass!234', Run 7: Result - strong
Password 'Pass!234', Run 8: Result - weak
Password 'Pass!234', Run 9: Result - weak
Password 'Pass!234', Run 10: Result - weak
Password '62sWJFk28gVnXK3u', Run 1: Result - strong
Password '62sWJFk28gVnXK3u', Run 2: Result - weak
Password '62sWJFk28gVnXK3u', Run 3: Result - strong
Password '62sWJFk28gVnXK3u', Run 4: Result - strong
Password '62sWJFk28gVnXK3u', Run 5: Result - strong
Password '62sWJFk28gVnXK3u', Run 6: Result - strong
Password '62sWJFk28gVnXK3u', Run 7: Result - strong
Password '62sWJFk28gVnXK3u', Run 8: Result - strong
Password '62sWJFk28gVnXK3u', Run 9: Result - strong
Password '62sWJFk28gVnXK3u', Run 10: Result - strong
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