Proton Pass Monitor is now available — dark web scanning, password health and inactive 2FA
from the team:
Hi everyone,
We’re happy to announce that the 2nd highest-voted feature request is rolling out this week — Proton Pass Monitor.
Proton Pass Monitor keeps your data safe with dark web monitoring, checking for weak and reused passwords, scanning for accounts with inactive 2FA, and providing easy access to Proton Sentinel.
You can also check out the following support articles:
How does Proton decide if a password is weak or not? About half (361 of 678) are considered weak, and I used either Bitwarden or Proton Pass itself to generate a random one. A bunch of the ones I've spot checked have upper, lower, numbers, and symbols and they're still getting flagged as weak. I wish there were a more granular scale because I'd be happy to change the passwords that are truly weak but I'm not going to change hundreds of passwords to a different random string.
If something is weak, it is Proton's knowledge of password strength. For example, they call a 16-character password without special characters "weak," which has around 95 bits of entropy, so this doesn't make sense. They also overemphasize the role of special characters in passwords, as just increasing the password length by a single character would add more entropy than enabling special characters. Furthermore, many of Proton's articles regarding password strength contain a lot of misinformation. This one talking about password entropy might be their worst yet. You cannot seriously claim that a single word, "Bankruptcies," has 68.4 bits of entropy, which also isn't the only inaccurate claim that the article makes.