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Passfault

OWASP Passfault evaluates passwords and enforces password policy in a completely different way.

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About this skill

Quality Score

0/100

Supported Platforms

Universal

README

Welcome to OWASP Passfault

Objective: Do Passwords Better!

NOTE: This project has been discontinued, but the zxcvbn project has a very similar approach and has been quite successful. We recommend using that library.

Running the Command-line Interface:

  1. install java 8 jdk
  2. cd commandLine
  3. ../gradlew installDist
  4. run build/install/passfault/bin/passfault

Running the jsonWebService:

  1. cd jsonService
  2. ../gradlew build jettyRunWar
  3. browse to localhost:8080/jsonService Note the war will be located in jsonService/build/lib/passfault-jsonService-[version].war

Running in Docker:

  1. Pull the Passfault image: docker pull ccaamm/passfault
  2. Create and run a passfault instance: docker run -p 8080:8080 --name myPassfault ccaamm/passfault
  3. Browse to localhost:8080

License: Passfault is licensed under Apache 2.0 license, and is a project at OWASP, the Open Web Application Security Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to building security tools and learning resources.

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GitHub Stars177
CategoryDevelopment
Updated2mo ago
Forks88

Languages

JavaScript

Security Score

95/100

Audited on Jan 26, 2026

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