🔐 Password Strength Checker

A beginner-friendly Python tool that evaluates the strength of user-entered passwords. This project teaches password hygiene, regular expressions, logic building, and how to avoid common security pitfalls.

🎯 Objectives

• Check if a password is weak or strong
• Validate based on length, symbols, dictionary words
• Give feedback like:
  • "Too short"
  • "Avoid common patterns"

🧠 What You'll Learn

• How to use regex for pattern matching
• How to validate against known weak passwords
• Security thinking around password hygiene

📂 File Structure

password_strength_checker/ ├── main.py ├── requirements.txt ├── README.md └── samples/ └── weak_passwords.txt

🚀 How to Run

# Step 1: Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/lesley-cyborg/password-strength-checker.git
cd password-strength-checker

# Step 2: Run the script
python main.py

🔐 Security Insight

This tool encourages users to:

Use longer, more complex passwords

Avoid dictionary words and predictable patterns

Understand the basics of password entropy and hygiene

🌐 Author

Created by Lesley aka InfoSecByNinja

“Small tools, big habits.” Build security thinking with every keystroke. 🛡️