Entropies, Guessing and Cryptography

By S. Boztaş. 1999

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1. Anupam Datta
2. Joseph Bonneau
3. Ding Wang
4. Scott M. Lundberg
5. Ananda Theertha Suresh
6. Mukund Sundararajan
7. Benedikt Bünz
8. Ian Covert

Citations in the corpus

• Differentially Private Password Frequency Lists (2016, background): “Boztaş [7] proposed a metric called β-guesswork, which measured the success rate for an adversary with β guesses per account ∑β i=1 pi.”
• Guessing human-chosen secrets (2012, methodology): “ously [234, 50] but we can use an enhanced proof technique to prove both results generically.”
• The Science of Guessing: Analyzing an Anonymized Corpus of 70 Million Passwords (2012, background): “There are several possible metrics for measuring guessing in this model: 1) β-success-rate: A very simple metric, first formally defined by Boztaş [29], measures the expected success for an attacker limited to β guesses per account:”