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Credential theft and remote attacks are the most serious threats to user authentication mechanisms. The crux of these problems is that we cannot control such behaviors. However, if a password does not contain user secrets, stealing it is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Suyun Borjigin

Passwords are undoubtedly the most dominant user authentication mechanism on the web today. Although they are inexpensive and easy-to-use, security concerns of password-based authentication are serious. Phishing and theft of password…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Klaudia Krawiecka , Arseny Kurnikov , Andrew Paverd , Mohammad Mannan , N. Asokan

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

Large language models (LLMs) successfully model natural language from vast amounts of text without the need for explicit supervision. In this paper, we investigate the efficacy of LLMs in modeling passwords. We present PassGPT, a LLM…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Javier Rando , Fernando Perez-Cruz , Briland Hitaj

Keyphrase generation aims to summarize long documents with a collection of salient phrases. Deep neural models have demonstrated a remarkable success in this task, capable of predicting keyphrases that are even absent from a document.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Xianjie Shen , Yinghan Wang , Rui Meng , Jingbo Shang

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

Amidst the surge in deep learning-based password guessing models, challenges of generating high-quality passwords and reducing duplicate passwords persist. To address these challenges, we present PagPassGPT, a password guessing model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Xingyu Su , Xiaojie Zhu , Yang Li , Yong Li , Chi Chen , Paulo Esteves-Veríssimo

Password managers encourage users to generate passwords to improve their security. However, research has shown that users avoid generating passwords, often giving the rationale that it is difficult to enter generated passwords on devices…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-06 John Sadik , Scott Ruoti

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

Automatic question generation is one of the most challenging tasks of Natural Language Processing. It requires "bidirectional" language processing: firstly, the system has to understand the input text (Natural Language Understanding) and it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Miroslav Blšták , Viera Rozinajová

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

Text-based passwords continue to be the prime form of authentication to computer systems. Today, they are increasingly created and used with mobile text entry methods, such as touchscreens and mobile keyboards, in addition to traditional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-03-11 Yulong Yang , Janne Lindqvist , Antti Oulasvirta

With the rapid development of internet technologies, social networks, and other related areas, user authentication becomes more and more important to protect the data of users. Password authentication is one of the widely used methods to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Lifeng Han

Keyphrase provides highly-condensed information that can be effectively used for understanding, organizing and retrieving text content. Though previous studies have provided many workable solutions for automated keyphrase extraction, they…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Rui Meng , Sanqiang Zhao , Shuguang Han , Daqing He , Peter Brusilovsky , Yu Chi

The security of passwords depends on a thorough understanding of the strategies used by attackers. Unfortunately, real-world adversaries use pragmatic guessing tactics like dictionary attacks, which are difficult to simulate in password…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Fangyi Yu , Miguel Vargas Martin

Researchers have extensively explored how password creation policies influence the security and usability of user-chosen passwords, producing evidence-based policy guidelines. However, for web authentication to improve in practice, websites…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Suood Alroomi , Frank Li

Although there have been many solutions applied, the safety challenges related to the password security mechanism are not reduced. The reason for this is that while the means and tools to support password attacks are becoming more and more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Nguyen Hong Son , Ha Thanh Dung

Preservation of information and computer security is broadly dependent on the secured authentication system which is underpinned by password. Text based password is a commonly used and available system for authentication. But it bears many…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Sanjida Akter Sharna , Sheikh Ashraf Ali

Password authentication using Hopfield Networks is presented in this paper. In this paper we discussed the Hopfield Network Scheme for Textual and graphical passwords, for which input Password will be converted in to probabilistic values.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-07-07 ASN Chakravarthy , P S Avadhani , P. E. S. N Krishna Prasad , N. Rajeevand , D. Rajasekhar Reddy

We propose a general method for automated word puzzle generation. Contrary to previous approaches in this novel field, the presented method does not rely on highly structured datasets obtained with serious human annotation effort: it only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-06-05 Balazs Pinter , Gyula Voros , Zoltan Szabo , Andras Lorincz