Me: Password validation UI update

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The current password validation works by calculating the entropy bits for a given string.

If the password has enough entropy bits, the password is fine. If the password fails the entropy test, we then run the password through some regex tests to provide suggestions. Sometimes these suggestions don't seem very helpful though.

Consider this example. I type in Orangina123! and am given this:

Cool, so I just add another letter or number maybe?

One more?

Maybe one more letter or number?

One more?

The issue here is that the user doesn't quite know what's acceptable or not, and how far until they get there. Since we're basing the password validation on entropy being above a certain number, what if we gave the user a progress bar that became filled up as the user approached an acceptable entropy?

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