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Dictionary Attacks

Dictionary Attacks is a type of password cracking technique that systematically tests a predefined list of likely passwords—derived from a lexical or specialized repository—against a target authentication system to gain unauthorized access, distinguished from brute-force attacks by its reliance on curated, high-probability candidate passwords rather than exhaustive character permutations.

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2017–2026

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Encrypted key exchange: password-based protocols secure against dictionary attacks

Steven M. Bellovin, Michael Merritt · 2003 · 1.4K citations · Full text

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The Science of Guessing: Analyzing an Anonymized Corpus of 70 Million Passwords

Joseph Bonneau · 2012 · 687 citations

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Augmented encrypted key exchange

Steven M. Bellovin, Michael Merritt · 1993 · 522 citations

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Password Cracking Using Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars

Matt Weir, Sudhir Aggarwal, Breno de Medeiros et al. · 2009 · 520 citations

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The Secure Remote Password Protocol.

Thomas D. Wu · 1998 · 439 citations

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Authors

412

  1. PC
    Paul C. van Oorschot

    Carleton University, Canada

    7 publications · 705 citations

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  2. PM
    Philip MacKenzie

    Carnegie Mellon University, United States

    4 publications · 157 citations

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  3. MK
    Michael K. Reiter

    Carnegie Mellon University, United States

    4 publications · 157 citations

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  4. JT
    Julie Thorpe

    Carleton University, Canada

    4 publications · 392 citations

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  5. DW
    Dongho Won

    Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea

    3 publications · 90 citations

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Institutions

182

  1. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    8 h-index

    12 publications

    1.4K citations

  2. Carleton University

    Ottawa, Canada

    7 h-index

    16 publications

    1.7K citations

  3. New York University

    New York, United States

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    810 citations

  4. Sungkyunkwan University

    Seoul, South Korea

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    238 citations

  5. IBM Research - Zurich

    Rüschlikon, Switzerland

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    334 citations

  6. Tel Aviv University

    Tel Aviv, Israel

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    746 citations

  7. United States Air Force Academy

    Colorado Springs, United States

    3 h-index

    11 publications

    224 citations

  8. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    395 citations

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Venues

  1. Procedia Computer Science

    4 publications · 69 citations

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  2. IEEE Access

    4 publications · 129 citations

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  4. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

    TDSC · 3 publications · 258 citations

    3

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  5. IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive

    Repository · 3 publications · 51 citations

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