From a00c24d906b6b07f355194253bacf8ace58ba71d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: MixtapeXD <46252377+AlecMcCutcheon@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 17:17:16 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 06d442e..291db71 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1 +1,5 @@ -# Password-Entropy-Calculator \ No newline at end of file +# Password-Entropy-Calculator + +Calculates the relative strength of a password. This is accomplished by using several techniques. Primarily this relies on letter trigraphs, which check each set of 3 characters in a given password. This also calculates the entropy bits based on Claude Shannon's technique on determining the number of bits required to represent a set of characters and multiplying it by the length of the password. There is also a check to see if a password is contained in a list of common passwords. + +As a bonus there's also a "Search Space" or (Total Possible Combinations) Calculator, inspired by GRC's Interactive Brute Force Password “Search Space” Calculator.