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Determining User Passwords From Partial Information

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Dylan Clarke, Ehsan Toreini, Professor Feng Hao

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Abstract

Memorable words have become a common technique in online banking security as a second authentication factor that is partially resistant to observation by adversaries. We formally model this technique and analyze the expected number of observations until the memorable word is known, for a range of common word lengths. We also calculate the probability of an adversary successfully passing authentication with knowledge of some but not all characters from the memorable word.


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Author(s): Clarke D, Toreini E, Hao F

Publication type: Report

Publication status: Published

Series Title: School of Computing Science Technical Report Series

Year: 2015

Pages: 10

Print publication date: 01/04/2015

Report Number: 1461

Institution: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne

URL: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/1461.pdf


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