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password cracking

Description: The process of recovering or guessing passwords from stored or transmitted data, studied in computer security and cryptography.
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Password Cracking Using Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars
2009 · Matt Weir, Sudhir Aggarwal, et al. · Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy/Proceedings of the ... IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy · 543
Zipf’s Law in Passwords
2017 · Ding Wang, Haibo Cheng, et al. · IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security · 499
Making a Faster Cryptanalytic Time-Memory Trade-Off
2003 · Philippe Oechslin · Lecture notes in computer science · 498
Fast dictionary attacks on passwords using time-space tradeoff
2005 · Arvind Narayanan, Vitaly Shmatikov · Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security · 456
The Tangled Web of Password Reuse
2014 · Anupam Das, Joseph Bonneau, et al. · Network and Distributed System Security Symposium · 446
Testing metrics for password creation policies by attacking large sets of revealed passwords
2010 · Matt Weir, Sudhir Aggarwal, et al. · Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security · 415
Guess Again (and Again and Again): Measuring Password Strength by Simulating Password-Cracking Algorithms
2012 · Patrick Gage Kelley, Saranga Komanduri, et al. · Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy/Proceedings of the ... IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy · 410
Password management strategies for online accounts
2006 · Shirley Gaw, Edward W. Felten · 372
Foiling the cracker: A survey of, and improvements to, password security
1992 · Daniel V. Klein · 357
Targeted Online Password Guessing
2016 · Ding Wang, Zijian Zhang, et al. · ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) · 351
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PassGAN: A Deep Learning Approach for Password Guessing
2019 · Briland Hitaj, Paolo Gasti, et al. · Lecture notes in computer science · 321
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Password Strength: An Empirical Analysis
2010 · Matteo Dell'Amico, Pietro Michiardi, et al. · IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) · 291
A Study of Probabilistic Password Models
2014 · Jerry Ma, Weining Yang, et al. · Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy/Proceedings of the ... IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy · 269
Honeywords
2013 · Ari Juels, Ronald L. Rivest · 259
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Measuring password guessability for an entire university
2013 · Michelle L. Mazurek, Saranga Komanduri, et al. · 222
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Human selection of mnemonic phrase-based passwords
2006 · Cynthia Kuo, Sasha Romanosky, et al. · 215
Improving password security and memorability to protect personal and organizational information
2007 · Kim-Phuong L. Vu, Robert W. Proctor, et al. · International Journal of Human-Computer Studies · 206
Quantifying the security of graphical passwords
2013 · Sebastian Uellenbeck, Markus Dürmuth, et al. · 205
On the Semantic Patterns of Passwords and their Security Impact
2014 · Rafael Veras, Christopher Collins, et al. · Network and Distributed System Security Symposium · 190
Human-seeded attacks and exploiting hot-spots in graphical passwords
2007 · Julie Thorpe, Paul C. van Oorschot · 184
UNIX Password Security - Ten Years Later
2007 · David C. Feldmeier, Philip R. Karn · Springer eBooks · 172
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The security of modern password expiration
2010 · Yinqian Zhang, Fabian Monrose, et al. · Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security · 169
Do Users' Perceptions of Password Security Match Reality?
2016 · Blase Ur, Jonathan Bees, et al. · CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · 161
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From Very Weak to Very Strong: Analyzing Password-Strength Meters
2014 · Xavier de Carné de Carnavalet, Mohammad Mannan · Network and Distributed System Security Symposium · 159
zxcvbn: Low-Budget Password Strength Estimation
2016 · Daniel Lowe Wheeler · USENIX Security Symposium · 154
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Citation count: 17,440
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