To provide timely feedbacks to users, nearly every respectable Internet service now imposes
a password strength meter (PSM) upon user registration or password change. It is a rare bit …

With the proliferation of websites, the security level of password-protected accounts is no
longer purely determined by individual ones. Users may register multiple accounts on the …

Passwords remain the most common method of authentication in computers and networks.
Thus, passwords have been the prime targets of attackers, and the number of data breaches …

A number of studies have advocated for the use of long passwords (passphrases) with the
aim of attaining a balance between security and usability. This study investigated the …

We present in this paper an alternative method for understanding user‐chosen passwords.
In password research, much attention has been given to increasing the security and usability …

In password guessing, the Markov model is still widely used due to its simple structure and
fast inference speed. However, the Markov model based on random sampling to generate …

The password security has been paid much attention to by many scholars. The conventional
password cracking methods are based on probabilistic models leveraging the leaked …

Human-made digital passwords are a dominant form of ATM card authentication. However, it
is vulnerable to guessing attacks. Unfortunately, previous studies have focused on letters …

TarGuess− I is a leading online targeted password guessing model using users' personally
identifiable information (PII) proposed at ACM CCS 2016 by Wang et al. It has attracted …

This study investigates the influence of native languages on password composition and
security. The socioculture theory's psychological development principles were used to argue …