Research Article

An Explainable Password Strength Meter Addon via Textual Pattern Recognition

Table 3

A table to show the difference between PSMs of Alexa top 10 sites and ours.

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our explainable meterStatusCode:402 Pattern:Pinyin Proportion:up to 5.4%StatusCode:302 Pattern: Dates Proportion:up to 12.9%StatusCode:201 Pattern:Keyboard proportion:up to 10.3%

Google

Facebookno hintno hint no hint

Baidu

Reddit

Yahoono hintno hint no hint

Tencent

Amazonno hintno hint no hint

Taobaostrength: mediumthe password does not meet requirementsmedium:weak

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