What's in a Name?

By Joseph Bonneau, Mike Just, Greg Matthews. Financial Cryptography, 2020

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The Quest to Replace Passwords: A Framework for Comparative Evaluation of Web Authentication Schemes (2012, background): “The distribution of feasible answers, such as surnames in the population, is also typically skewed enough to limit the security of most questions to 10 bits [97].”
The Science of Guessing: Analyzing an Anonymized Corpus of 70 Million Passwords (2012, background): “also include guessing curves for two distributions from non-password-based authentication schemes: a distribution of four-digit unlock codes used for an iPhone application leaked in 2011 [33] and the distribution of surnames (the most common category of answer to personal knowledge questions) from a”
How Does Your Password Measure Up? The Effect of Strength Meters on Password Creation (2012, background): “We neither further propagate the data, nor does our work call significantly greater attention to the data sets, which have been used in several scientific studies [4, 9, 18, 38, 39].”