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Guessing Models

Guessing Models is a computational framework in password security research that characterizes the probabilistic strategies attackers use to infer user-chosen passwords by modeling the relative likelihood of password guessability based on empirical or heuristic distributions.

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12.7K

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354

Authors

158

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2017–2026

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155

Unraveling in Guessing Games: An Experimental Study

Rosemarie Nagel · American Economic Review · 2007 · 1.5K citations

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Password memorability and security: empirical results

Junjie Yan, A Blackwell, Ross Anderson et al. · IEEE Security & Privacy · 2004 · 692 citations

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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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Variability in encoding precision accounts for visual short-term memory limitations

Ronald van den Berg, Hongsup Shin, Wen-Chuang Chou et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2012 · 605 citations · Full text

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INCIDENTAL VOCABULARY ACQUISITION IN A SECOND LANGUAGE

Thomas N. Huckin, James Coady · Studies in Second Language Acquisition · 1999 · 530 citations

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Authors

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  1. LF
    Lorrie Faith Cranor

    Carnegie Mellon University, United States

    6 publications · 1.1K citations

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  2. SK
    Saranga Komanduri

    Carnegie Mellon University, United States

    6 publications · 1.1K citations

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  3. LB
    Lujo Bauer

    Carnegie Mellon University, United States

    5 publications · 1.1K citations

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  4. BU
    Blase Ur

    Carnegie Mellon University, United States

    5 publications · 695 citations

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  5. RS
    Richard Shay

    Carnegie Mellon University, United States

    5 publications · 911 citations

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Institutions

158

  1. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    8 h-index

    45 publications

    9K citations

  2. Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

    Bengaluru, India

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    185 citations

  3. Microsoft (United States)

    Redmond, United States

    4 h-index

    8 publications

    664 citations

  4. Carleton University

    Ottawa, Canada

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    267 citations

  5. Fudan University

    Shanghai, China

    3 h-index

    13 publications

    524 citations

  6. Virginia Tech

    Blacksburg, United States

    3 h-index

    9 publications

    335 citations

  7. Ontario Tech University

    Oshawa, Canada

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    682 citations

  8. National University of Ireland, Maynooth

    Maynooth, Ireland

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    128 citations

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Venues

  1. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

    4 publications · 279 citations

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  2. Journal of Experimental Psychology

    4 publications · 100 citations

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  3. Educational and Psychological Measurement

    4 publications · 81 citations

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  4. Applied Psychological Measurement

    4 publications · 177 citations

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  5. USENIX Security Symposium

    Conference · 3 publications · 373 citations

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