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Modified Password Guessing Methods Based on TarGuess-I
Joint Authors
Li, Zhenhan
Xie, Zhijie
Zhang, Min
Guo, Yuqi
Wang, Hongjun
Source
Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
Issue
Vol. 2020, Issue 2020 (31 Dec. 2020), pp.1-22, 22 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2020-12-02
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
22
Main Subjects
Information Technology and Computer Science
Abstract EN
TarGuess−I is a leading online targeted password guessing model using users’ personally identifiable information (PII) proposed at ACM CCS 2016 by Wang et al.
It has attracted widespread attention in password security owing to its superior guessing performance.
Yet, after analyzing the users’ vulnerable behaviors of using popular passwords and constructing passwords with users’ PII, we find that this model does not take into account popular passwords, keyboard patterns, and the special strings.
The special strings are the strings related to users but do not appear in the users’ demographic information.
Thus, we propose TarGuess−I+KPX, a modified password guessing model with three semantic methods, including (1) identifying popular passwords by generating top-300 lists from similar websites, (2) recognizing keyboard patterns by relative position, and (3) catching the special strings by extracting continuous characters from user-generated PII.
We conduct a series of evaluations on six large-scale real-world leaked password datasets.
The experimental results show that our modified model outperforms TarGuess−I by 2.62% within 100 guesses.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Xie, Zhijie& Zhang, Min& Guo, Yuqi& Li, Zhenhan& Wang, Hongjun. 2020. Modified Password Guessing Methods Based on TarGuess-I. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing،Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-22.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Xie, Zhijie…[et al.]. Modified Password Guessing Methods Based on TarGuess-I. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing No. 2020 (2020), pp.1-22.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Xie, Zhijie& Zhang, Min& Guo, Yuqi& Li, Zhenhan& Wang, Hongjun. Modified Password Guessing Methods Based on TarGuess-I. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. 2020. Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-22.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1214661
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1214661