This project contains all the work that our group did for the CMP311 Professional Project module. The team were given a range of briefs to choose from and decided upon a tool to help educate users on password security and how they can make more secure passwords. The planned users of this solution were the users of the Abertay University IT system meaning they have an account assigned to them on this. The hope is with the development of this project we can better increase their security.
We spent a lot of time planning our solution and came to the conclusion that our final solution would consist of 3 main fundamental parts.
This will be hosted on the abertay servers and will act as the backend of our project. This contains functions that will generate a complexity score on a range of factors. This will also check against common attack dictionaries for the password and send a notification if the user has reused their password before.
This will be an android app that will run on android 10 (API29). The users will be able to use this to log into an account if they are registered and to check the security of their password. From here, it will then give information backed by well founded research on their chosen password and inform them how to improve it.
This will be the browser extension run on google chrome. The users will be able to use this to log in to an account if they are registered and to check the security of there password. From here, it will then give information backed by well founded research on their chosen password and inform them how to improve it.