Research Article

An Explainable Password Strength Meter Addon via Textual Pattern Recognition

Box 1

The public version of our explainable PSM.
“statusCode”: 402,
“pattern”: “Pinyin:hao,ren,yi,sheng,ping,an, 6 syllable”,
“proportion”: “Pinyin patterns account for approximately 5% of millions of passwords.”,
“hint”: “Pinyin patterns are dangerous. Avoiding Pinyin pattern passwords will be safer”
 }