The idea and perception of good cyber security protection remains at the forefront of many
organizations' information and communication technology strategy and investment …

Smart-card based password authentication has been the most widely used two-factor
authentication (2FA) mechanism for security-critical applications (eg, e-Health, smart grid …

Due to the limitations of symmetric-key techniques, authentication and key agreement (AKA)
protocols based on public-key techniques have attracted much attention, providing secure …

State-of-the-art password guessing tools, such as HashCat and John the Ripper, enable
users to check billions of passwords per second against password hashes. In addition to …

In a model inversion attack, an adversary attempts to reconstruct the training data records of
a target model using only the model's output. In launching a contemporary model inversion …

Reproducibility is crucial to the advancement of science; it strengthens confidence in
seemingly contradictory results and expands the boundaries of known discoveries …

Passwords are the most widely used authentication method, and guessing attacks are the
most effective method for password strength evaluation. However, existing password …

Textual password security hinges on the guessing models adopted by attackers, in which a
suitable password composition representation is an influential factor. Unfortunately, the …

Honeywords are decoy passwords associated with each user account to timely detect
password leakage. The key issue lies in how to generate honeywords that are hard to be …

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 …