In an effort to assess the strength of passwords, password strength checkers count lower-
case and upper-case letters, digits and other characters. However, this does not truly …

It is a well known fact that user-chosen passwords are somewhat predictable: by using tools
such as dictionaries or probabilistic models, attackers and password recovery tools can …

Passwords have been a recurring subject of research ever since Morris and Thompson first
pointed out their disadvantages in 1979. Several decades later, textual passwords remain to …

Password authentication is still the most used authentication mechanism in today's computer
systems. In most systems, the password is set by the user and must adhere to certain …

Password authentication is the most widely used authentication mechanism, and it will still
be with us for many years yet to come. It is effective, simple, and accurate, with no extra cost …

Password has been a predominating approach for user authentication to gain access to
restricted resources. The main issue with password is its quality or strength, ie how easy (or …

Passwords are the most frequently used authentication mechanism. However, due to
increased password numbers, there has been an increase in insecure password behaviors …

Despite considerable research on passwords, empirical studies of password strength have
been limited by lack of access to plaintext passwords, small data sets, and password sets …

Due to increasing security awareness of password from the public and little attention on the
characteristics of real-life passwords, it is thus natural to understand the current state of …

Passwords can be used to gain access to specific data, an account, a computer system or a
protected space. A single user may have multiple accounts that are protected by passwords …