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- 749 creator david-malone.
- 749 creator kevin-maher.
- 749 type InProceedings.
- 749 label "Investigating the Distribution of Password Choices".
- 749 sameAs 749.
- 749 abstract "In this paper we look at the distribution with which passwords are chosen. Using password lists from four different web sites, we investigate if Zipf's law is a good description of the frequency with which passwords are chosen by users. We use a number of standard statistics, which measure the security of password distributions, to see if modelling the data using Zipf's Law or a uniform distribution is effective. We then consider how much the the password distributions from each site have in common, using password guessing/cracking as a metric. This shows that these distributions have enough high-frequency passwords in common to prove effective for cracking passwords. Finally, we will show how to shape the distribution of passwords to reduce high-frequency passwords, by occasionally asking users to choose a different password.".
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- 749 keyword "Zipf".
- 749 keyword "dictionary attack".
- 749 keyword "distribution".
- 749 keyword "passwords".
- 749 title "Investigating the Distribution of Password Choices".