Empirically Measuring and Evolving Common Password Heuristics
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- abstract
- Passwords remain a common authentication method, yet contemporary manual password generation methods maintain weak passwords - an ongoing challenge in cybersecurity. Despite password policies designed to require harder-to-guess passwords, compromising a user password remains one of the most common methods of data breach. We consider the possibility that users select current password generation methods for ease of recall instead of resilience against attack.
- subject
- Cryptographic Hashing Functions
- Cyber Security
- Network Security
- Password Cracking
- Password Generation
- Password Strength
- contributor
- Fulp, Errin W (committee chair)
- Turkett, William H (committee member)
- Gage, H. Donald (committee member)
- date
- 2022-05-24T08:36:11Z (accessioned)
- 2022-05-24T08:36:11Z (available)
- 2022 (issued)
- degree
- Computer Science (discipline)
- identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10339/100766 (uri)
- language
- en (iso)
- publisher
- Wake Forest University
- title
- Empirically Measuring and Evolving Common Password Heuristics
- type
- Thesis