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Recommender systems have become an integral part of online platforms. Every day the volume of training data is expanding and the number of user interactions is constantly increasing. The exploration of larger and more expressive models has…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Antonios Valkanas , Yuening Wang , Yingxue Zhang , Mark Coates

In today's world password compromise by some adversaries is common for different purpose. In ICC 2008 Lei et al. proposed a new user authentication system based on the virtual password system. In virtual password system they have used…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-03-22 Bhavin Tanti , Nishant Doshi

Time-based one-time password (TOTP) systems in use today require storing secrets on both the client and the server. As a result, an attack on the server can expose all second factors for all users in the system. We present T/Key, a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Dmitry Kogan , Nathan Manohar , Dan Boneh

A password composition policy restricts the space of allowable passwords to eliminate weak passwords that are vulnerable to statistical guessing attacks. Usability studies have demonstrated that existing password composition policies can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-02-26 Jeremiah Blocki , Saranga Komanduri , Ariel Procaccia , Or Sheffet

Password authentication is a very important system security procedure to gain access to user resources. In the Traditional password authentication methods a server has check the authenticity of the users. In our proposed method users can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-12-13 A. S. N. Chakravarthy , Penmetsa V. Krishna Raja , Prof. P. S. Avadhani

Safe memory reclamation is crucial to memory safety for optimistic and lock-free concurrent data structures in non garbage collected programming languages. However, several challenges arise in designing an ideal safe memory reclamation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ajay Singh

The majority of systems rely on user authentication on passwords, but passwords have so many weaknesses and widespread use that easily raise significant security concerns, regardless of their encrypted form. Users hold the same password for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Vassilis Papaspirou , Leandros Maglaras , Mohamed Amine Ferrag , Ioanna Kantzavelou , Helge Janicke , Christos Douligeris

Threats to passwords are still very relevant due to attacks like phishing or credential stuffing. One way to solve this problem is to remove passwords completely. User studies on passwordless FIDO2 authentication using security tokens…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Johannes Kunke , Stephan Wiefling , Markus Ullmann , Luigi Lo Iacono

Passwords are the most common mechanism for authenticating users online. However, studies have shown that users find it difficult to create and manage secure passwords. To that end, passphrases are often recommended as a usable alternative…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Avirup Mukherjee , Kousshik Murali , Shivam Kumar Jha , Niloy Ganguly , Rahul Chatterjee , Mainack Mondal

Passwords are still a mainstay of various security systems, as well as the cause of many usability issues. For end-users, many of these issues have been studied extensively, highlighting problems and informing design decisions for better…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Alena Naiakshina , Anastasia Danilova , Christian Tiefenau , Marco Herzog , Sergej Dechand , Matthew Smith

Passwords remain the primary authentication method, yet user-created passwords are often the weakest due to the security-usability trade-off. Although AI-based password generators are emerging, little is known about their effectiveness and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Duru Paker , Suleyman Ozdel , Enkelejda Kasneci

Passphrases offer an alternative to traditional passwords which aim to be stronger and more memorable. However, users tend to choose short passphrases with predictable patterns that may reduce the security they offer. To explore the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Christopher Bonk , Zach Parish , Julie Thorpe , Amirali Salehi-Abari

Password updates are a critical account security measure and an essential part of the password lifecycle. Service providers and common security recommendations advise users to update their passwords in response to incidents or as a critical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Alexander Krause , Jacques Suray , Lea Schmüser , Marten Oltrogge , Oliver Wiese , Maximilian Golla , Sascha Fahl

Cloud computing is drastically growing technology which provides an on-demand software, hardware, infrastructure and data storage as services. This technology is used worldwide to improve the business infrastructure and performance.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-07-17 Dinesha H. A. , V. K. Agrawa

Over the years security experts in the field of Information Technology have had a tough time in making passwords secure. This paper studies and takes a careful look at this issue from the angle of philosophy and cognitive science. We have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-09-15 M Atif Qureshi , Arjumand Younus , Arslan Ahmed Khan

Large amount of electronic data is generated in Cloud computing every day. Efficient maintenance of this data requires proper services. Hence a method to collect data securely, by protecting and developing backups is mentioned. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-26 Manali Raje , Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay

This research investigates the role of passwords and passphrases as valid authentication methodologies. Specifically, this research dispels earlier work that ignores information-theoretic lessons learned from cognitive and social psychology…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Christopher S. Pilson

The security of any cryptosystem relies on the secrecy of the system's secret keys. Yet, recent experimental work demonstrates that tens of thousands of devices on the Internet use RSA and DSA secrets drawn from a small pool of candidate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-01-09 Henry Corrigan-Gibbs , Wendy Mu , Dan Boneh , Bryan Ford

Software-based memory-erasure protocols are two-party communication protocols where a verifier instructs a computational device to erase its memory and send a proof of erasure. They aim at guaranteeing that low-cost IoT devices are free of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Reynaldo Gil-Pons , Sjouke Mauw , Rolando Trujillo-Rasua

Neural networks are often trained on proprietary datasets, making them attractive attack targets. We present a novel dataset extraction method leveraging an innovative training time backdoor attack, allowing a malicious federated learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Eden Luzon , Guy Amit , Roy Weiss , Torsten Kraub , Alexandra Dmitrienko , Yisroel Mirsky