Password Guessing Based on LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks

Abstract

Passwords are frequently used in data encryption and user authentication. Since people incline to choose meaningful words or numbers as their passwords, lots of passwords are easy to guess. This paper introduces a password guessing method based on Long Short-Term Memory recurrent neural networks. After training our LSTM neural network with 30 million passwords from leaked Rockyou dataset, the generated 3.35 billion passwords could cover 81.52% of the remaining Rockyou dataset. Compared with PCFG and Markov methods, this method shows higher coverage rate.