devise_zxcvbn

Plugin for devise to reject weak passwords, using zxcvbn-rb which is a ruby port of zxcvbn: realistic password strength estimation.

The user's password will be rejected if the score is below 4 by default. It also uses the email as user input to zxcvbn, to reject passwords containing parts of the email (if using zxcvbn.js on the frontend you should also do this to get the same score).

The scores 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4 are given when the estimated crack time (seconds) is less than 10**2, 10**4, 10**6, 10**8, Infinity.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'devise_zxcvbn'

Configuration

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  devise :zxcvbnable

  # Optionally add more weak words to check against:
  def weak_words
    ['mysitename', self.name, self.username]
  end
end

Available methods for devise resources

class User < ApplicationRecord
  devise :zxcvbnable
end

user = User.new.tap do |user|
  user.email = "example@example.com"
  user.password = "123456789"
end

user.password_score => #<OpenStruct password="123456789", guesses=6, guesses_log10=0.7781512503836435, sequence=[{"pattern"=>"dictionary", "i"=>0, "j"=>8, "token"=>"123456789", "matched_word"=>"123456789", "rank"=>5, "dictionary_name"=>"passwords", "reversed"=>false, "l33t"=>false, "base_guesses"=>5, "uppercase_variations"=>1, "l33t_variations"=>1, "guesses"=>5, "guesses_log10"=>0.6989700043360187}], calc_time=15, crack_times_seconds={"online_throttling_100_per_hour"=>216, "online_no_throttling_10_per_second"=>0.6, "offline_slow_hashing_1e4_per_second"=>0.0006, "offline_fast_hashing_1e10_per_second"=>6.0e-10}, crack_times_display={"online_throttling_100_per_hour"=>"4 minutes", "online_no_throttling_10_per_second"=>"less than a second", "offline_slow_hashing_1e4_per_second"=>"less than a second", "offline_fast_hashing_1e10_per_second"=>"less than a second"}, score=0, feedback={"warning"=>"This is a top-10 common password", "suggestions"=>["Add another word or two. Uncommon words are better."]}>
# returns a simple OpenStruct object so than you could send another messages to get more info

user.password_weak? => true/false # returns a boolean result of checking of weakness of your set password

Default parameters

A score of less than 3 is not recommended.

# config/initializers/devise.rb
Devise.setup do |config|
  config.min_password_score = 4
end

Error Message

The default error message:

"not strong enough. It scored %{score}. It must score at least %{min_password_score}."

You can customize this error message modifying the devise YAML file.

The crack_time_display, feedback, score and min_password_score variables are passed through if you need them.

# config/locales/devise.en.yml
en:
  errors:
    messages:
      weak_password: "not strong enough. Consider adding a number, symbols or more letters to make it stronger."

Skipping password complexity validation

To turn off password complexity validation for certain conditions, you could implement a concern (or similar) that overloads skip_password_complexity?:

def skip_password_complexity?
  true
end

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Add test coverage for the feature, We use rspec for this purpose
4. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
5. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
6. Create new Pull Request

License

devise_zxcvbn is Copyright © 2013 Bit Zesty. It is free software, and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the LICENSE file.

About Bit Zesty

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