SOM Password Validator
Extension Delisted
This extension is no longer available in the official store. Delisted on 2025-09-17.
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Status
- Minor Policy Violation
- Removed Long Ago
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Description from extension meta
This extension validates a password against a SOM map of historical password leaks.
Description from store
SOM Password Validator is a Chrome extension that uses Self-Organizing Maps to aggregate passwords that have been previously leaked on the internet and provides a different way of checking password Security.
This is the result of a research paper by Diogo Monica (https://diogomonica.com)
Latest reviews
- Ian Henderson
- I don't understand the purpose of the meter; it seems to swing full anti-clockwise, or full clockwise which gives the same amount of information as the tick and cross. I tried some sample passwords. aaaaaaaa is apparently good, but 79wT&bcL is bad. Could be the difference between 7 and 8 characters, but the latter seems intuitively less susceptible to a dictionary attack. Might be useful to see a summary of why a candidate succeeds or fails.