Modern authentication schemes in smartphones and IoT devices: An empirical survey

MT Ahvanooey, MX Zhu, Q Li… - IEEE Internet of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
User authentication remains a challenging issue, despite the existence of a large number of
proposed solutions, such as traditional text-based, graphical-based, biometrics-based, Web …

[HTML][HTML] A survey exploring open source Intelligence for smarter password cracking

A Kanta, I Coisel, M Scanlon - Forensic Science International: Digital …, 2020 - Elsevier
From the end of the last century to date, consumers are increasingly living their lives online.
In today's world, the average person spends a significant proportion of their time connecting …

No single silver bullet: Measuring the accuracy of password strength meters

D Wang, X Shan, Q Dong, Y Shen, C Jia - 32nd USENIX Security …, 2023 - usenix.org
To help users create stronger passwords, nearly every respectable web service adopts a
password strength meter (PSM) to provide real-time strength feedback upon user …

A novel dictionary generation methodology for contextual-based password cracking

A Kanta, I Coisel, M Scanlon - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It has been more than 50 years since the concept of passwords was introduced and adopted
in our society as a digital authentication method. Despite alternative authentication methods …

[HTML][HTML] How viable is password cracking in digital forensic investigation? Analyzing the guessability of over 3.9 billion real-world accounts

A Kanta, S Coray, I Coisel, M Scanlon - Forensic Science International …, 2021 - Elsevier
Passwords have been and still remain the most common method of authentication in
computer systems. These systems are therefore privileged targets of attackers, and the …

A new multimodal approach for password strength estimation—Part I: Theory and algorithms

J Galbally, I Coisel, I Sanchez - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
After more than two decades of research in the field of password strength estimation, one
clear conclusion may be drawn: no password strength metric by itself is better than all other …

Privacy-Preserving Password Cracking: How a Third Party Can Crack Our Password Hash Without Learning the Hash Value or the Cleartext

N Tihanyi, T Bisztray, B Borsos… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Using the computational resources of an untrusted third party to crack a password hash can
pose a high number of privacy and security risks. The act of revealing the hash digest could …

[PDF][PDF] Enhancing Multi-Class Password Strength Prediction Through Machine Learning and Ensemble Techniques.

EF Aziz, MR Baker - International Journal of Safety & Security …, 2024 - researchgate.net
Password strength prediction plays an important role in improving protection against cyber
threats as their frequency increases. Typically, rules are used more specifically, but not all …

Password guessability as a service (PGaaS)

J Bojato, D Donado, M Jimeno, G Moreno… - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper presents an adaptable password guessability service suited for different
password generators according to what a user might need when using such a service. In …

A review of machine learning techniques in cybersecurity and research opportunities

S Mittal - Machine Learning for Cyber Security, 2022 - degruyter.com
The past few years have seen a dramatic surge in Internet usage of all individuals.
Moreover, this usage has evolved from casual surfing to serious online businesses …