The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

The Center for Education and Research in
Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

Checking For Secure Passwords Using Hash Functions

Author

Stefan Dresler

Entry type

techreport

Abstract

* Users allowed to choose reusable passwords -> Weak passwords are often chosen. * A password is weak if it is 1. easy to guess, 2. simple to derive, or 3. likely to be found in a dictionary attack. * (attempted) solution: keep dictionary, try to look up newly chosen passwords. * Problem: the size of the dictionary makes storing it possibly searching it unattractive. *(New) solution: use a Bloom filter for reduced storage consumption and constant look-up time.

Date

1993 – July

Address

West Lafayette, IN 47907-1398

Institution

COAST Publications

Key alpha

Dresler

Publication Date

0000-00-00

Location

A hard-copy of this is in the Papers Cabinet

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