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Wolfram|Alpha password strength calculation in PHP 5.2+
<?php
/**
* Wolfram|Alpha password strength calculation
*
* @see https://gist.github.com/1514997 (original source this class is based on)
* @see http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=password+strength+for+god
* @see https://github.com/rchouinard/phpass
* @license MIT
*/
class PasswordStrength {
const STRENGTH_VERY_WEAK = 0;
const STRENGTH_WEAK = 1;
const STRENGTH_FAIR = 2;
const STRENGTH_STRONG = 3;
const STRENGTH_VERY_STRONG = 4;
public function classifyScore($score) {
if ($score < 0) return self::STRENGTH_VERY_WEAK;
if ($score < 60) return self::STRENGTH_WEAK;
if ($score < 70) return self::STRENGTH_FAIR;
if ($score < 90) return self::STRENGTH_STRONG;
return self::STRENGTH_VERY_STRONG;
}
public function classify($pw) {
return $this->classifyScore($this->calculate($pw));
}
/**
* Calculate score for a password
*
* @param string $pw the password to work on
* @return int score
*/
public function calculate($pw) {
$length = strlen($pw);
$score = $length * 4;
$nUpper = 0;
$nLower = 0;
$nNum = 0;
$nSymbol = 0;
$locUpper = array();
$locLower = array();
$locNum = array();
$locSymbol = array();
$charDict = array();
// count character classes
for ($i = 0; $i < $length; ++$i) {
$ch = $pw[$i];
$code = ord($ch);
/* [0-9] */ if ($code >= 48 && $code <= 57) { $nNum++; $locNum[] = $i; }
/* [A-Z] */ elseif ($code >= 65 && $code <= 90) { $nUpper++; $locUpper[] = $i; }
/* [a-z] */ elseif ($code >= 97 && $code <= 122) { $nLower++; $locLower[] = $i; }
/* . */ else { $nSymbol++; $locSymbol[] = $i; }
if (!isset($charDict[$ch])) {
$charDict[$ch] = 1;
}
else {
$charDict[$ch]++;
}
}
// reward upper/lower characters if pw is not made up of only either one
if ($nUpper !== $length && $nLower !== $length) {
if ($nUpper !== 0) {
$score += ($length - $nUpper) * 2;
}
if ($nLower !== 0) {
$score += ($length - $nLower) * 2;
}
}
// reward numbers if pw is not made up of only numbers
if ($nNum !== $length) {
$score += $nNum * 4;
}
// reward symbols
$score += $nSymbol * 6;
// middle number or symbol
foreach (array($locNum, $locSymbol) as $list) {
$reward = 0;
foreach ($list as $i) {
$reward += ($i !== 0 && $i !== $length -1) ? 1 : 0;
}
$score += $reward * 2;
}
// chars only
if ($nUpper + $nLower === $length) {
$score -= $length;
}
// numbers only
if ($nNum === $length) {
$score -= $length;
}
// repeating chars
$repeats = 0;
foreach ($charDict as $count) {
if ($count > 1) {
$repeats += $count - 1;
}
}
if ($repeats > 0) {
$score -= (int) (floor($repeats / ($length-$repeats)) + 1);
}
if ($length > 2) {
// consecutive letters and numbers
foreach (array('/[a-z]{2,}/', '/[A-Z]{2,}/', '/[0-9]{2,}/') as $re) {
preg_match_all($re, $pw, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);
if (!empty($matches)) {
foreach ($matches as $match) {
$score -= (strlen($match[0]) - 1) * 2;
}
}
}
// sequential letters
$locLetters = array_merge($locUpper, $locLower);
sort($locLetters);
foreach ($this->findSequence($locLetters, mb_strtolower($pw)) as $seq) {
if (count($seq) > 2) {
$score -= (count($seq) - 2) * 2;
}
}
// sequential numbers
foreach ($this->findSequence($locNum, mb_strtolower($pw)) as $seq) {
if (count($seq) > 2) {
$score -= (count($seq) - 2) * 2;
}
}
}
return $score;
}
/**
* Find all sequential chars in string $src
*
* Only chars in $charLocs are considered. $charLocs is a list of numbers.
* For example if $charLocs is [0,2,3], then only $src[2:3] is a possible
* substring with sequential chars.
*
* @param array $charLocs
* @param string $src
* @return array [[c,c,c,c], [a,a,a], ...]
*/
private function findSequence($charLocs, $src) {
$sequences = array();
$sequence = array();
for ($i = 0; $i < count($charLocs)-1; ++$i) {
$here = $charLocs[$i];
$next = $charLocs[$i+1];
$charHere = $src[$charLocs[$i]];
$charNext = $src[$charLocs[$i+1]];
$distance = $next - $here;
$charDistance = ord($charNext) - ord($charHere);
if ($distance === 1 && $charDistance === 1) {
// We find a pair of sequential chars!
if (empty($sequence)) {
$sequence = array($charHere, $charNext);
}
else {
$sequence[] = $charNext;
}
}
elseif (!empty($sequence)) {
$sequences[] = $sequence;
$sequence = array();
}
}
if (!empty($sequence)) {
$sequences[] = $sequence;
}
return $sequences;
}
}
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hexalys commented Jan 23, 2015

A couple corrections:
STRENGTH_VERY_WEAK is scored at < 50 and STRENGTH_FAIR as < 75

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