Analysis of Password Cracking Methods & Applications

Probabilistic Context-Free Grammar Based Password Cracking: Attack, Defense and Applications

Password Cracking and Countermeasures in Computer Security: A Survey

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 the users. Password authentication is one of the widely used methods to achieve authentication for legal users and defense against intruders. There have been many password cracking methods developed during the past years, and p...

An Analysis and Comparison of Clustered Password Crackers

Password policies alone do not stand a chance of securing computer systems which rely on the use of secretbased, password authentication methods. The enforcement of “strong” passwords via pro-active password strengthening utilities and password cracking tools should be employed by system administrators to reduce the number of “weak” passwords in a computer system. With the availability of low-c...

Security and Usability Analysis of Password Agent

Password plays an important role in online authentication. But it suffer from two interactable problems ,one is password cracking and second is password theft. Password agent mechanism contains strong hashing scheme which provides stronger protection against password theft and password cracking. Password Agent generates strong passwords by enhancing the hash function with a large random salt. T...

Linguistic Cracking of Passphrases Using Markov Chains

In order to remember long passwords, it is not uncommon users are recommended to create a sentence which then is assembled to form a long password, a passphrase. However, theoretically a language is very limited and predictable, why a linguistically correct passphrase according to Shannon's definition of information theory should be relatively easy to crack compared to bruteforce. This work foc...