Targeted Online Password Guessing: An Underestimated Threat

By Ding Wang, Zijian Zhang, Ping Wang, Jeff Yan, Xinyi Huang. Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2016

394 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Information Systems, Signal Processing

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/072fdf4397a7b75774ddc7961180861383044638

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In Information Systems

1. Ping Wang
2. Ding Wang

In Signal Processing

1. Ping Wang
2. Ding Wang

Citations in the corpus

• Two Birds with One Stone: Two-Factor Authentication with Security Beyond Conventional Bound (2018, background): “If we had considered targeted online guessing [54] and taken into account the fact that user passwords become weaker when additional authentication”
• Zipf’s Law in Passwords (2017, neutral): “Online guessing can be to some extent (but not readily [3]) counteracted by the server by using non-cryptographic techniques, such as mod-”
• A Security Analysis of Honeywords (2018, neutral): “Passwords firmly remain the most prevalent method for user authentication and are likely to keep their place in the foreseeable future, despite their notorious defects in both security and usability [3], [6], [28].”