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Bitwarden offers the most trusted password tester tool to ensure your password strength will protect your online information. Completely free and easy to use.
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Password Security Checker: Everything You Need to Know | Bitwarden
The checker aims to warn users if they’re creating vulnerable passwords, encourage them to use stronger ones, and improve the user’s overall privacy and security online. Ready to test the strength of your passwords? Try the free and secure · Bitwarden Strength Tester.
How to check exposed passwords
It would be handy to search for passwords or part of them. I was trying to ID which a/c’s might have been compromised when some passwords associated with my domain/emails were found on the dark web. Currently, i’d have to manually view and check each and every entry to see which if any ... More on community.bitwarden.com
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February 17, 2022Password Strength Testing Tool - password from list listed as secure
Don’t use password strength testers… that’s what you missed. They just look for characteristics like length and characters used and aren’t really a good measure of how secure a password is. More on reddit.com
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September 16, 2024Bitwarden Password Strength Tester
The other explanations here are true but maybe this will clarify why. Bad password checkers assume a cracking program will guess, in order: a, b, c, … aa, ab, ac, ad, … and so on forever. Good password strength checkers calculate entropy (~randomness) with the assumption of common reasonable wordlists and standard variations on those words, in addition to gibberish character strings. Password cracking tools don’t tend to guess every single random string of characters from shortest to longest, since many people are more likely to choose real words or variations of words. So, for example, “eggplan” is actually a stronger password than “eggplant” despite having fewer characters. They’re both awful, but any decent password cracking tool will guess a word a human is more likely to choose first (vs egg + plan, two unusual words to combine). “eggplan” will even take longer to crack than “eggpl@nt” because a→@ is such a common substitution for humans trying to strengthen their passwords that password cracking tools will likely try it first. Extending to longer sequences, 3-6 memorable unmodified words chosen randomly from very long lists will usually be both more memorable and harder to crack than 2-3 words with symbols inserted. Edit to add: the best way to get a sense of how this works in practice is here: https://lowe.github.io/tryzxcvbn/ More on reddit.com
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September 17, 2022Question about the BW password strength tester
The problem with password strength testing tools like Bitwarden's is the fact that the don't know anything about how the password was generated. All they know is the end result. It's kind of like telling the tool "I rolled a 3" without telling it if the die is a d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, or d20. To answer your question directly, password cracking is more art than science. Experienced password crackers will leverage existing cracked password lists to chase after the low hanging fruit first. They'll apply some masks to alter passwords found in the list, such as making the first character uppercase or appending special characters, but by and large, they're doing everything they can do avoid brute forcing. More on reddit.com
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r/Bitwarden on Reddit: Bitwarden Password Strength Tester
September 17, 2022 -
In light of the recent LastPass breech I looked at different strength test websites to see how long a password would hold up under a offline brute-force attack.
The password I tried was: Aband0nedFairgr0und
This is a a 19 character password with a combination of uppercase/lowercase/numbers. Granted, there is no special characters.
I went to 5 different password strength sites and they all give me wildly different results for how long it would take to crack.
| https://www.security.org/how-secure-is-my-password/ | 9 quadrillion years |
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| https://delinea.com/resources/password-strength-checker | 36 quadrillion years |
| https://password.kaspersky.com/ | 4 months |
| https://bitwarden.com/password-strength/ | 1 day |
As you can see the results are all over the place!
Why is the Bitwarden result so low and if the attacker had zero knowledge of the password, is it feasible to take an average of the diufferent results and assume that password is sronger that 1 day?
PS: Dont worry, Aband0nedFairgr0und is not a password I use and was made up as a test.
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The other explanations here are true but maybe this will clarify why. Bad password checkers assume a cracking program will guess, in order: a, b, c, … aa, ab, ac, ad, … and so on forever. Good password strength checkers calculate entropy (~randomness) with the assumption of common reasonable wordlists and standard variations on those words, in addition to gibberish character strings. Password cracking tools don’t tend to guess every single random string of characters from shortest to longest, since many people are more likely to choose real words or variations of words. So, for example, “eggplan” is actually a stronger password than “eggplant” despite having fewer characters. They’re both awful, but any decent password cracking tool will guess a word a human is more likely to choose first (vs egg + plan, two unusual words to combine). “eggplan” will even take longer to crack than “eggpl@nt” because a→@ is such a common substitution for humans trying to strengthen their passwords that password cracking tools will likely try it first. Extending to longer sequences, 3-6 memorable unmodified words chosen randomly from very long lists will usually be both more memorable and harder to crack than 2-3 words with symbols inserted. Edit to add: the best way to get a sense of how this works in practice is here: https://lowe.github.io/tryzxcvbn/
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Bitwarden.com uses zxcvbn to calculate the time-to-crack. You can try it online at https://lowe.github.io/tryzxcvbn/ and it'll tell how it arrived at a time of 1 day.
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How to check exposed passwords - Password Manager - Bitwarden Community Forums
February 17, 2022 - It would be handy to search for passwords or part of them. I was trying to ID which a/c’s might have been compromised when some passwords associated with my domain/emails were found on the dark web. Currently, i’d have to manually view and check each and every entry to see which if any ...
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How Secure is my Password | Bitwarden
Answer the question of how secure is my password by using this guide to help ensure your passwords are strong, secure, and easy to manage.
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How strong is my password? | Bitwarden
June 20, 2023 - But, the quality of these password strength meters can vary. Before leaning too heavily on a third-party site’s built-in tools, consider first reviewing the Bitwarden Password Security Checker explainer, then utilizing the Bitwarden Password Strength Testing Tool.
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The most effective strategy for achieving password strength | Bitwarden
December 26, 2023 - A user could feasibly test each and every one of their passwords to ensure they are meeting the requirements for “strong” or “very strong”. Or, they could use the · Bitwarden Strong Password Generator in conjunction with the Bitwarden Password Strength Testing Tool.
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bitwarden.com › blog › how to test the strength of your passwords in 2022
How to Test the Strength of Your Passwords in 2022 | Bitwarden
For those interested in testing the strength of current passwords, you can do this safely and automatically using the free Bitwarden Password Strength Tester. Simply begin typing any existing or desired password into the open text field, and the Bitwarden password checker will display your password strength rating and automatically calculate and display in the ‘Evaluation’ section below.
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Best Password Manager for Business, Enterprise & Personal | Bitwarden
Bitwarden is the most trusted password manager for passwords and passkeys at home or at work, on any browser or device. Start with a free trial.
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bitwarden.com › blog › how to determine your password health
How to determine your password health | Bitwarden
July 5, 2023 - Users who feel relatively confident about the strength of the passwords - and those that do not - can also leverage the Bitwarden password strength testing tool. They can simply type in or copy their password (which is never transmitted to the Bitwarden servers and is processed locally in a device’s web browser window) and be given an evaluation.
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The 2025 Hive Systems Password Table Is Here - Passwords Are Easier to Crack Than Ever
October 3, 2025 - Password storage solutions like LastPass, 1Password, and Bitwarden use the hashing approach called PBKDF2 salted with a strong hash alternative to MD5, called SHA-256. Even NIST recommends PBKDF2 SHA-256.
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Forgot My Master Password | Bitwarden
This article explains what to do if you forgot your master password, as Bitwarden has no way to retrieve or reset it.
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Free Password Generator | Create Strong Passwords and Passphrases | Bitwarden
Easy and secure password generator that's completely free and safe to use. Generate strong passwords and passphrases for every online account with the strong Bitwarden password generator, and get the latest best practices on how to maintain ...
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GitHub - PacketParker/bitwarden-password-checker: Checks your Bitwarden vault for breached passwords on the HaveIBeenPwned API.
Checks your Bitwarden vault for breached passwords on the HaveIBeenPwned API. - PacketParker/bitwarden-password-checker
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Password Meter - A visual assessment of password strengths and weaknesses
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Vault Health Reports | Bitwarden
Log in to the Bitwarden web app. Open the Admin Console using the product switcher: ... Choose a report to run. ... The Exposed Passwords report will identify passwords that have been uncovered in known data breaches that were released publicly ...
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r/Bitwarden on Reddit: Password Strength Testing Tool - password from list listed as secure
September 16, 2024 -
Hi! Tested one of my old cracked password with the bitwarden Password strength testing tool and it was shown as secure. So I tested it with one of the password that I thought look at least kind of good from a rockyou-list: "arisdwiwanto070606" (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/josuamarcelc/common-password-list/refs/heads/main/rockyou.txt/rockyou_2.txt) with the result that it was a strong password.
According to HaveIBeenPwnd the password has been seen one time before.
Is there any reason why Bitwarden does not check for any new password lists as well when telling the user about the password strength (zxcvbn seems to have a 9 years old password list, https://github.com/dropbox/zxcvbn/tree/master/data) or do I miss something?
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Don’t use password strength testers… that’s what you missed. They just look for characteristics like length and characters used and aren’t really a good measure of how secure a password is.
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A password “strength tester” attempts to verify the complexity of a password based on its form. They are all garbage, including the one Bitwarden offers. The only way to properly assess the strength of a password is by analyzing the app that generated it. No single password by itself can give you a good measure. You are wondering about whether a password has been breached. This is independent of its strength. The Bitwarden premium subscription offers such an assessment based on https://haveibeenpwned.com . I have seen this report on the web portal. There is also a validation button in the new mobile app, but I am not 100% certain that is yet wired into HIBP.
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