{"id":3413,"date":"2019-09-13T07:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/langa.com\/?p=3413"},"modified":"2019-09-16T09:12:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T13:12:12","slug":"how-should-i-check-the-authenticity-of-a-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/langa.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/13\/how-should-i-check-the-authenticity-of-a-password\/","title":{"rendered":"“How should I check the authenticity of a password?”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(Answer requested by Aditya Verma)<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you really mean \u201cauthenticity,\u201d that\u2019s a programmatic question, and I can\u2019t help you: You\u2019ll need to hire someone (or learn yourself) to compare whatever password you\u2019re trying to authenticate to whatever database or algorithm or other authentication-source you specify.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if you mean you want to check how good, or secure, or \u201cunguessable\u201d a password is, there are many places that can help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Search ‘password checkers’ on Google<\/a>, for example and you\u2019ll see a long list of sites than can examine any example password you type in to tell you how hard it\u2019d be to crack or guess — i.e. whether it’s safe to use, or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(BTW: Don\u2019t enter any real, in-use passwords on those sites \u2014 use only example passwords that are similar to<\/em><\/strong> the real password you want to check, without being identical.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Answer requested by Aditya Verma) If you really mean \u201cauthenticity,\u201d that\u2019s a programmatic question, and I can\u2019t help you: You\u2019ll need to hire someone (or learn yourself) to compare whatever password you\u2019re trying to authenticate to whatever database or algorithm or other authentication-source you specify. 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