In plain English
This is a measure of how resistant a password is to being worked out by others. Greater strength means it is harder for an unauthorized person or a computer program to guess or crack it.
In context
Here, it labels the meter that indicates how difficult the new password would be for an unauthorized person or computer program to guess or crack.
- Situation
- Setting passwords, multifactor authentication, recovery codes, and trusted devices
- What it communicates
- labels the meter shown while a new password is being created
Meaning limits
By itself, the term does not say what level of difficulty is required or how that difficulty is measured.
Examples
“A name and a birth year usually result in low password strength because they are easy to guess.”
“As she added another word, the password strength meter moved from weak to strong.”