Researchers have made a meter that helps users make stronger and easier to remember passwords

The new meter led users to create stronger passwords that were no harder to remember than passwords created without the feedback. US researchers have unveiled a new state-of-the-art password meter that offers real-time feedback and advice to help people create better passwords. “The key result is that providing the data-driven feedback actually makes a huge difference in security compared to just having a password labelled as weak or strong,” said lead author Blase Ur, Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. “Instead of just having a meter say, ‘Your password is bad,’ we thought it would be useful for the meter to say, ‘Here’s why it’s bad and here’s how you could do better,’” added Nicolas Christin, Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania, US.