Passay - Overview

Passay is a Java based Password generation and validation library. It provides comprehensive features list in order to validate/generate passwords and is highly configurable.

Passay Components

Passay API has 3 core components.

• Rule − one or more rules which define a password policy rule set.

• PasswordValidator − A validator component which validates a password against a given rule set.

• PasswordGenerator − A generator component which produces passwords to satisfy a given rule set.

Rule overview

Rules are the foundation blocks for both password validation and generation. There are two broad categories of rules:

• Positive match require that passwords satisfy a rule.

• Negative match reject passwords that satisfy a rule.

Features

Following are some of the features that Passay library provides.

• Password Validation − Passay library helps in enforcing a password policy by validating passwords against a configurable rule set. It has a rich set of existing rules for common use-cases. For additional cases, it provides a simple Rule interface to implement the custom rule.

• Password Generation − It provides a configurable rule set which can be used to generate passwords as well.

• Command Line Tools − It provides tools to automate password policy enforcement.

• convenient − Easy to use.

• Extensible − All Passay components are extensible.

• Supports Internalization - Passay components are internationalization ready.