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Text password has long been the dominant user authentication technique and is used by large numbers of Internet services. If they follow recommended practice, users are faced with the almost insuperable problem of generating and managing a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Fatma Al Maqbali , Chris J Mitchell

Passwords are the most widely used method of authentication and password guessing is the essential part of password cracking and password security research. The progress of deep learning technology provides a promising way to improve the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Min Jin , Junbin Ye , Rongxuan Shen , Huaxing Lu

Recent advances in generative models have led to their application in password guessing, with the aim of replicating the complexity, structure, and patterns of human-created passwords. Despite their potential, inconsistencies and inadequate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-20 William Corrias , Fabio De Gaspari , Dorjan Hitaj , Luigi V. Mancini

Large-scale online password guessing attacks are wide-spread and continuously qualified as one of the top cyber-security risks. The common method for mitigating the risk of online cracking is to lock out the user after a fixed number ($K$)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Jeremiah Blocki , Wuwei Zhang

The purpose of this study was to measure whether participant education, profession, and technical skill level exhibited a relationship with identification of password strength. Participants reviewed 50 passwords and labeled each as weak or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Jason M. Pittman , Nikki Robinson

Traditional text-based password schemes are inherently weak. Users tend to choose passwords that are easy to remember, making them susceptible to various attacks that have matured over the years. ObPwd [5] has tried to address these issues…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Sufian Hameed , Lamak Qaizar , Shankar Khatri

Inverting the hash values by performing brute force computation is one of the latest security threats on password based authentication technique. New technologies are being developed for brute force computation and these increase the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Nilesh Chakraborty , Samrat Mondal

Shoulder-surfing is a known risk where an attacker can capture a password by direct observation or by recording the authentication session. Due to the visual interface, this problem has become exacerbated in graphical passwords. There have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-06-13 Haichang Gao , Zhongjie Ren , Xiuling Chang , Xiyang Liu , Uwe Aickelin

"Honeywords" have emerged as a promising defense mechanism for detecting data breaches and foiling offline dictionary attacks (ODA) by deceiving attackers with false passwords. In this paper, we propose PassFilter, a novel deep learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Jimmy Dani , Brandon McCulloh , Nitesh Saxena

The last decade has witnessed a tremendous growth of service computing, while efficient service recommendation methods are desired to recommend high-quality services to users. It is well known that collaborative filtering is one of the most…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Lina Wang , Huan Yang , Yiran Shen , Chao Liu , Lianyong Qi , Xiuzhen Cheng , Feng Li

The widespread usage of password authentication in online websites leads to an ever-increasing concern, especially when considering the possibility for an attacker to recover the user password by leveraging the loopholes in the password…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Simone Raponi , Roberto Di Pietro

This work explores injection attacks against password managers. In this setting, the adversary (only) controls their own application client, which they use to "inject" chosen payloads to a victim's client via, for example, sharing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Andrés Fábrega , Armin Namavari , Rachit Agarwal , Ben Nassi , Thomas Ristenpart

Paraphrasing re-expresses meaning to enhance applications like text simplification, machine translation, and question-answering. Specific paraphrase types facilitate accurate semantic analysis and robust language models. However, existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Christopher Lee Lübbers

In this paper, a new behavioral biometric password based on haptic interaction is described. This "haptic password" system is built on a device that has a force-sensitive screen. The user authentication process leverages maximal overlap…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Junjie Yan , Tamara Bonaci , Howard Jay Chizeck

Formal verification has recently been increasingly used to prove the correctness and security of many applications. It is attractive because it can prove the absence of errors with the same certainty as mathematicians proving theorems.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Carolina Carreira , João F. Ferreira , Alexandra Mendes , Nicolas Christin

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 have been long used as the primary authentication method for web services. Weak passwords used by the users have prompted the use of password management tools and two-factor authentication to ensure better account security. While…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Pratyush Choudhary , Subhrajit Das , Mukul Paras Potta , Prasuj Das , Abhishek Bichhawat

This paper studies leakage of user passwords and PINs based on observations of typing feedback on screens or from projectors in the form of masked characters that indicate keystrokes. To this end, we developed an attack called Password and…

Password guessing approaches via deep learning have recently been investigated with significant breakthroughs in their ability to generate novel, realistic password candidates. In the present work we study a broad collection of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-18 David Biesner , Kostadin Cvejoski , Bogdan Georgiev , Rafet Sifa , Erik Krupicka

In this work we analyse five popular commercial password managers for security vulnerabilities. Our analysis is twofold. First, we compile a list of previously disclosed vulnerabilities through a comprehensive review of the academic and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Michael Carr , Siamak F. Shahandashti