com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api

Interface PasswordScoreService

All Known Implementing Classes:

NoOpPasswordScoreServiceImpl

public interface PasswordScoreService

Analyses passwords to provide an estimate of their strength.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
PasswordScore	getPasswordScore(PasswordCredential passwordCredential, Collection<String> userInfo) Analyse a non-encrypted password and determine the score of it according to some method (e.g.

Method Detail

getPasswordScore

PasswordScore getPasswordScore(PasswordCredential passwordCredential,
                               Collection<String> userInfo)

Analyse a non-encrypted password and determine the score of it according to some method (e.g. based on the amount of entropy in the password).

Parameters:

passwordCredential - The credential to analyse.

userInfo - a collection of user-specific information to use when scoring (display name, email, etc)

Returns:

A score for the password strength, or UNKNOWN if the password of passwordCredential is encrypted or the implementation is unable to determine a password score (including but not limited to encountering an error).