We just researched the same thing. We decided on reusing this gist by Aaron McCall after making some minor changes. The main advantage is that it's simple, easy to understand code.
Here's a jQuery plugin that works with password fields as well. It's not as tiny as the code suggested by Matthew but it has a few more fixes in it. I've used this successfully together with H5Validate as well.
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