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Measuring password guessability for an entire university

Year: 2013

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Despite considerable research on passwords, empirical studies of password strength have been limited by lack of access to plaintext passwords, small data sets, and password sets specifically collected for a research study or from low-value accounts. Properties of passwords used for high-value accounts thus remain poorly understood.

Source: ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)

DOI: 10.1145/2508859.2516726

Authors: Michelle L. Mazurek, Saranga Komanduri, Timothy Vidas, Lujo Bauer, Nicolas Christin, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Patrick Gage Kelley, Richard Shay, Blase Ur

Institutions: Carnegie Mellon University, University of New Mexico

Language: English

Topic: User Authentication and Security Systems

Subfield: Information Systems

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Defense, Microsoft Research, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate, Army Research Office, Air Force Research Laboratory

Awards: G3772943231, G4765608798, IGERT: Usable Privacy and Security, TC: Small: An Empirical Study of Text-based Passwords and Their Users, G7452299184, G864484945

OpenAlex ID: W2111397260

FWCI: 14.2

Cites: 56

Cited by: 234

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