> > Finally, something in English. But this is silly; anyone who'd be
> > messing with this much security stuff in the first place
> surely knows
> > what kind of passwords to choose.
>
> No. Unfortunately no.
>
> Weak passwords are one of the largest security problems
> overall. I think
> that a "password quality meter" is a *very* good idea.
>
I agree that "password quality meter" is a good idea. Nevertheless - I
believe that if we are talking about average (dumb?) user - it is far more
understandable for him/her if the app simply sais something like "Your
password is [quality level]" where [quality level] could be "quite safe" or
"perfectly safe" or "not secure at all you dumbass any 6 year old could
figure it out".
In addition the dialog should either have help btton somewhere (I'm sorry I
dont remember if it was on the image) that would explain what is a good
password and what is not or alternatively the dialog itself would contain
some short description of a good password...
Another way to present the quality of the password would be showing it on
some kind of a progressbar-like "password quality meter" bar.
The only problem I see is that these so called password quality meters would
have some kind of a computed result that is not necessarily correct, but
that is just another issue.
The only place I can see where text boxes for these parameters would be
actually needed would be some kind of random password generator function
(even then I think I could do without)
My 2 cents
Roland
