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2014-09-17
Cao, Phuong, Li, Hongyang, Nahrstedt, Klara, Kalbarczyk, Zbigniew, Iyer, Ravishankar, Slagell, Adam J..  2014.  Personalized Password Guessing: A New Security Threat. Proceedings of the 2014 Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security. :22:1–22:2.

This paper presents a model for generating personalized passwords (i.e., passwords based on user and service profile). A user's password is generated from a list of personalized words, each word is drawn from a topic relating to a user and the service in use. The proposed model can be applied to: (i) assess the strength of a password (i.e., determine how many guesses are used to crack the password), and (ii) generate secure (i.e., contains digits, special characters, or capitalized characters) yet easy to memorize passwords.