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Today we’d like to share a little reimplementation of an interesting effect with you. The idea came from this Reddit entry which describes a method of showing an image less pixelated the stronger the password entered is. You can see the idea in action on the signup page of Colibro. We thought this was an awesome idea and wanted to experiment with it, and also with the reverse logic.
So go ahead and try it out: start entering a password in the form and see the image getting a different amount of pixelization. The second demo shows the reverse logic where the image gets more obscured when the password is getting stronger.
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We hope you like this little effect and find it useful.
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References and Credits
- Idea from this Reddit entry
- Password Strength ‘meter’ by Pankaj Parashar
- zxcvbn by Daniel Lowe Wheeler
- Images from Unsplash.com
- imagesLoaded by Dave DeSandro
- Pixelate by Ken Fyrstenberg, Epistemex, License: CC BY 3.0
- Fullscreen image in Canvas by Chrysto Panayotov
It’s an interesting concept but “strength” is very subjective. As a pen tester, I see hundreds of passwords every will and most have one thing in common: they contain actual words or names. As a general rule, if your password isn’t 19 or so characters and if it isn’t random there’s a good chance it’s crackable if the hash is divulged, especially in a network environment.
Can I use it in my website ? Commercially?
Wouldn’t it make more sense for the image to distort the more complex the password gets? Could serve as a better metaphor.
Check out demo2! Cheers
Hi,
I’m the original developer from Colibro. Im glad this is catching on!
If any one has any questions please let me know.