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ASP.NET Password Strength Regular Expression

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Jan 1, 2011

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ASP.NET Password Strength Regular Expression. Customize n numbers of upper case, digits, special characters.

Shown below is the regular expression for password strength with n number of digits, upper case, special characters and at least 12 characters in length.

(?=^.{12,25}$)(?=(?:.*?\d){2})(?=.*[a-z])(?=(?:.*?[A-Z]){2})(?=(?:.*?[!@#$%*()_+^&}{:;?.]){1})(?!.*\s)[0-9a-zA-Z!@#$%*()_+^&]*$

Explanation

(?=^.{12,25}$) -- password length range from 12 to 25, the numbers are adjustable 

(?=(?:.*?[!@#$%*()_+^&}{:;?.]){1}) -- at least 1 special characters (!@#$%*()_+^&}{:;?.}) , the number is adjustable 

(?=(?:.*?\d){2}) -- at least 2 digits, the number is adjustable 

(?=.*[a-z]) -- characters a-z 

  (?=(?:.*?[A-Z]){2}) -- at least 2 upper case characters, the number is adjustable