Guessing human-chosen secrets

By Joseph Bonneau. 2012

65 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Information Systems, Signal Processing

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Clinical Psychology

1. Ari Juels
2. R. Rivest
3. Anupam Datta

In Information Systems

1. Ari Juels
2. R. Rivest
3. Anupam Datta
4. Jeremiah Blocki
5. Ninghui Li
6. Weining Yang
7. Min Luo
8. Jerry Ma

In Signal Processing

1. Ari Juels
2. R. Rivest
3. Jeremiah Blocki
4. Ninghui Li
5. Weining Yang
6. Min Luo
7. Jerry Ma
8. Anupam Datta

Citations in the corpus

• Differentially Private Password Frequency Lists (2016, background): “While intuitive, Bonneau demonstrated that this metric produces absurd results on real password datasets due to the presence of extremely difficult-to-guess outliers [6].”
• A Study of Probabilistic Password Models (2014, background): “8 for other scenarios, because of space limitation.”
• Honeywords: making password-cracking detectable (2013, background): “Based on study of published password corpora, including one for 70 million Yahoo! users, he estimates that a majority of passwords have little more than 20 bits of effective entropy against an optimal attacker [7, 8].”