Challenge: Password strength tests

(bright music) … - [Instructor] Let's do a quick challenge … that tests password strength. … We'll start with a little background. … In 2017, the National Institute of Science and Technology, … or NIST, … published improved password guidelines. … Now, some of the key changes include: … you no longer have to have frequent password changes. … Requiring frequent password changes … has been proven to be counterproductive. … And, complex rules are no longer needed … such as upper and lower case letters, … numbers, punctuation marks, and symbols. … This is also demonstrated to be ineffective. … So in this challenge, let's do a test. … You're going to go to this website, howsecureismypassword.net. … And then I want you to try three different passwords … and see the results. … One is a variation of the word pool ball. … And here's the second variation. … And then try a passphrase: orangetigerkittens. … And then I want you to see the results. … And then answer the question, … what is better, length or complexity? …