On the Incomparability of Entropy and Marginal Guesswork in Brute-Force Attacks

By John O. Pliam. 2000

92 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Political Science and International Relations

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In Artificial Intelligence

1. Joseph Bonneau
2. Anupam Datta
3. Jeremiah Blocki
4. Yu-Xiang Wang
5. Su-In Lee
6. Scott M. Lundberg

In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

1. Joseph Bonneau
2. Anupam Datta
3. Jeremiah Blocki

In Political Science and International Relations

1. Joseph Bonneau
2. Jeremiah Blocki

Citations in the corpus

• Differentially Private Password Frequency Lists (2016, background): “Pliam proposed a similar metric called α-guesswork [30].”
• Guessing human-chosen secrets (2012, methodology): “A related metric, first formalised by Pliam [236], evaluates the fixed number of guesses per account needed to break a desired proportion α of accounts.”
• The Science of Guessing: Analyzing an Anonymized Corpus of 70 Million Passwords (2012, background): “2) α-work-factor: A related metric, first formalized by Pliam [28], evaluates the fixed number of guesses per account needed to break a desired proportion α of accounts.”