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Password Guessing Attacks

Password Guessing Attacks is a type of authentication attack wherein an adversary systematically attempts to gain unauthorized access by identifying a user's password through trial-and-error methods based on likely or predicted password values.

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201

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2017–2026

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Password Guessing

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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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Password Cracking Using Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars

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

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Protecting poorly chosen secrets from guessing attacks

Li‐Hua Gong, Mark Lomas, Roger M. Needham et al. · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications · 1993 · 366 citations

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Targeted Online Password Guessing

Ding Wang, Zijian Zhang, Ping Wang et al. · 2016 · 316 citations · Full text

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Authors

415

  1. YP
    Youngho Park

    Kyungpook National University, South Korea

    8 publications · 577 citations

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  2. AK
    Ashok Kumar Das

    International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India

    8 publications · 583 citations

    8

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  3. PC
    Paul C. van Oorschot

    Carleton University, Canada

    5 publications · 481 citations

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  4. WK
    Wei‐Chi Ku

    Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan

    5 publications · 176 citations

    5

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  5. CL
    Cheng‐Chi Lee

    Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan

    4 publications · 251 citations

    4

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Institutions

201

  1. Kyungpook National University

    Daegu, South Korea

    10 h-index

    23 publications

    1.3K citations

  2. International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad

    Hyderabad, India

    8 h-index

    9 publications

    654 citations

  3. Carleton University

    Ottawa, Canada

    6 h-index

    12 publications

    1K citations

  4. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    6 h-index

    21 publications

    1.8K citations

  5. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    11 publications

    2.1K citations

  6. Sungkyunkwan University

    Seoul, South Korea

    4 h-index

    11 publications

    354 citations

  7. City University of Hong Kong

    Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    252 citations

  8. National Cheng Kung University

    Tainan City, Taiwan

    4 h-index

    13 publications

    1.1K citations

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Venues

  1. IEEE Access

    10 publications · 815 citations

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  2. ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review

    7 publications · 722 citations

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  3. International journal of network security

    IJNS · 7 publications · 212 citations

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  4. International Journal of Communication Systems

    5 publications · 271 citations

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  5. IEEE Communications Letters

    4 publications · 180 citations

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