A few quick updates..
I updated some of the javascript so that now the background color of the Bonus cells will correspond with your individual scores. I’m hoping that this will make it that much clearer to users as they test their password strings. I also made the code for this site available for download under the GNU General Public License (see download link at the bottom of the page).
In addition, I have determined, at least for the moment, that weighting each piece of criteria is going to be much more difficult than anticipated. My current method relies on adding/subtracting fixed values from the overall score based on the chosen characters. But doing so leaves the possibility of achieving a final result that is less than zero or greater than one-hundred. To fix this issue, I simply capped the final bonus values at a minimum value of zero and a maximum value of one-hundred. However, this is not terribly optimal. So I’m putting this out to the general public in hopes of obtaining useful feedback from others, that will ultimately help me to improve this tool. Please feel free to leave any suggestions/ideas using the comment form below.
Thanks in advance,
The Meter Man