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password strength

Password strength is the degree to which a password is difficult for an unauthorized person or computer program to guess or crack.

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.”

Core meaning

“As she added another word, the password strength meter moved from weak to strong.”

In context