Password Strength Tester

Inspiration

This project was my attempt to make a simple password strength checker. I wanted to do something different so I compared the given password to the rockyou.txt (a file containing a list of common passwords found in data breaches).

What it does

This code checks to see if the given password meets the criteria of a strong password, as well as check to see if this password is used commonly. The file of which to check if the password is common can be changed as an argument when running the executable.

How we built it

This code base is build entirely in C++.

Challenges we ran into

I am unfamiliar with C++ so I wanted to refresh my memory (pun intended) to see if I could write the script in this language. The biggest challenge was figuring out a way to efferently work with file i/o so that the code can run reasonably fast.

Built With

• c++
• cpp