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A package used to check the health and strength of passwords/passphrases.
After installing the package use following import:
from security_scanner import (
check_password_strength,
check_uniqueness,
check_membership_in_rainbow_tables,
check_rotation_activated
)
Then use following commands:
password = getpass.getpass(prompt='Enter password: ')
if not check_password_strength(password):
print("Password is weak")
elif not check_uniqueness(password):
print("Password is not unique")
elif not check_membership_in_rainbow_tables(password):
print("Password is in rainbow tables")
elif not check_rotation_activated(datetime.date(YEAR, MONTH, DAY), rotation_interval_days):
print("password rotation is not activated")
else:
print("Password is strong and unique, and password rotation is activated")
FAQs
Password/passphrase strength and health checker
We found that security-scanner demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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