NAME

       Data::Password::zxcvbn::Match::Regex - match class for recognisable patterns in passwords

VERSION

       version 1.1.2

DESCRIPTION

       This class represents the guess that a certain substring of a password can be guessed by
       enumerating small languages described by regular expressions. By default, the only regex
       used is one that matches recent years (yes, this is very similar to what "Date" does).

ATTRIBUTES

   "regexes"
       Hashref, the regular expressions that were tried to get this match. The values are
       arrayrefs with 2 elements: the regex itself, and the estimated number of guesses per
       character; for example:

         digits => [ qr[(\p{Nd}+)], 10 ],

   "regex_name"
       The name of the regex that matched the token.

METHODS

   "make"
         my @matches = @{ Data::Password::zxcvbn::Match::Regex->make(
           $password,
           { # this is the default
             regexes => \%Data::Password::zxcvbn::Match::Regex::regexes_limited,
           },
         ) };

       Scans the $password for substrings that match regexes in "regexes".

       By default, the only regex that's used is one that matches recent years expressed as 4
       digits. More patterns are available as "\%Data::Password::zxcvbn::Match::Regex::regexes"
       (which you can also get if you say "regexes => 'all'"), or you can pass in your own
       hashref.

   "estimate_guesses"
       For the "recent_year" regex, the number of guesses is the number of years between the
       value represented by the token and a reference year (currently 2017).

       For all other regexes, the number of guesses is exponential on the length of the token,
       using as base the second element of the matching pattern (i.e.
       "$self->regexes->{$self->regex_name}[1]").

   "feedback_warning"
   "feedback_suggestions"
       This class suggests not using recent years. At the moment, there's no feedback for other
       regexes.

   "fields_for_json"
       The JSON serialisation for matches of this class will contain "token i j guesses
       guesses_log10 regex_name".

AUTHOR

       Gianni Ceccarelli <gianni.ceccarelli@broadbean.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2022 by BroadBean UK, a CareerBuilder Company.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
       the Perl 5 programming language system itself.