Generally, in the world of Computer Science certain steps are taken in order to ensure the security of a system from spyware and malware attacks or more typically algorithms are developed for security checking and validity.Likewise Password strength checking is a method used to determine the strength of a password and its complexity.
Brute forcing is the type of attack which is used to crack the password by typing all the total possible combinations out of which one will match exactly with the original password.This program is generally designed on Brute Forcing attacks by giving you a brief summary of your password along with total possbile combinmations and overall strength.Check the catalouge menu for more information.
- First you need to find an online IDE for e.g. online c compiler or CS50 IDE
- Copy the C code and paste it into the IDE
- Compile the code.
- Run the code along with your password (be sure to be alone when no one is around you) for e.g. [run_command] hackr123!
- If you type the command line argument wrong then you will be warned.
- Read the output on the terminal window.
- On success the program generates a text file (.txt) in the output source directory which contains information about your password.
- Download the .txt file from the source directory to check the summary of your password.