element-web/src/utils/PasswordScorer.js

/*
Copyright 2018 New Vector Ltd

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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import zxcvbn from 'zxcvbn';

import {MatrixClientPeg} from '../MatrixClientPeg';
import { _t, _td } from '../languageHandler';

const ZXCVBN_USER_INPUTS = [
    'riot',
    'matrix',
];

// Translations for zxcvbn's suggestion strings
_td("Use a few words, avoid common phrases");
_td("No need for symbols, digits, or uppercase letters");
_td("Use a longer keyboard pattern with more turns");
_td("Avoid repeated words and characters");
_td("Avoid sequences");
_td("Avoid recent years");
_td("Avoid years that are associated with you");
_td("Avoid dates and years that are associated with you");
_td("Capitalization doesn't help very much");
_td("All-uppercase is almost as easy to guess as all-lowercase");
_td("Reversed words aren't much harder to guess");
_td("Predictable substitutions like '@' instead of 'a' don't help very much");
_td("Add another word or two. Uncommon words are better.");

// and warnings
_td("Repeats like \"aaa\" are easy to guess");
_td("Repeats like \"abcabcabc\" are only slightly harder to guess than \"abc\"");
_td("Sequences like abc or 6543 are easy to guess");
_td("Recent years are easy to guess");
_td("Dates are often easy to guess");
_td("This is a top-10 common password");
_td("This is a top-100 common password");
_td("This is a very common password");
_td("This is similar to a commonly used password");
_td("A word by itself is easy to guess");
_td("Names and surnames by themselves are easy to guess");
_td("Common names and surnames are easy to guess");
_td("Straight rows of keys are easy to guess");
_td("Short keyboard patterns are easy to guess");

/**
 * Wrapper around zxcvbn password strength estimation
 * Include this only from async components: it pulls in zxcvbn
 * (obviously) which is large.
 *
 * @param {string} password Password to score
 * @returns {object} Score result with `score` and `feedback` properties
 */
export function scorePassword(password) {
    if (password.length === 0) return null;

    const userInputs = ZXCVBN_USER_INPUTS.slice();
    if (MatrixClientPeg.get()) {
        userInputs.push(MatrixClientPeg.get().getUserIdLocalpart());
    }

    let zxcvbnResult = zxcvbn(password, userInputs);
    // Work around https://github.com/dropbox/zxcvbn/issues/216
    if (password.includes(' ')) {
        const resultNoSpaces = zxcvbn(password.replace(/ /g, ''), userInputs);
        if (resultNoSpaces.score < zxcvbnResult.score) zxcvbnResult = resultNoSpaces;
    }

    for (let i = 0; i < zxcvbnResult.feedback.suggestions.length; ++i) {
        // translate suggestions
        zxcvbnResult.feedback.suggestions[i] = _t(zxcvbnResult.feedback.suggestions[i]);
    }
    // and warning, if any
    if (zxcvbnResult.feedback.warning) {
        zxcvbnResult.feedback.warning = _t(zxcvbnResult.feedback.warning);
    }

    return zxcvbnResult;
}