Password Complexity Requirements is a security policy construct that specifies the minimum structural and compositional criteria a password must meet—such as length, character diversity, and exclusion of predictable patterns—to enhance resistance against brute-force and dictionary attacks within password-based authentication systems.
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The true cost of unusable password policies
Philip Inglesant, M. Angela Sasse · 2010 · 329 citations
Encountering stronger password requirements
Richard Shay, Saranga Komanduri, Patrick Gage Kelley et al. · 2010 · 310 citations
Where do security policies come from?
Dinei Florêncio, Cormac Herley · 2010 · 156 citations
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Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, United States
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University of Maryland, College Park
College Park, United States
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2 publications
220 citations
State University of Semarang
Semarang, Indonesia
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University College London
London, United Kingdom
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Google (United States)
Mountain View, United States
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Microsoft (United States)
Redmond, United States
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Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
Daejeon, South Korea
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MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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Conference · 1 publications · 19 citations
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- ACM Transactions on Information and System Security
TISSEC · 1 publications · 130 citations
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- IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive
Repository · 1 publications · 90 citations
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- Journal of Cybersecurity
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