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On Practical Aspects of PCFG Password Cracking

HRANICKÝ Radek, LIŠTIAK Filip, MIKUŠ Dávid and RYŠAVÝ Ondřej. On Practical Aspects of PCFG Password Cracking. In: Data and Applications Security and Privacy. Charleston: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019, pp. 43-60. ISBN 978-3-030-22478-3. ISSN 0302-9743. Available from: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-22479-0_3
Czech title
Praktické aspekty lámání hesel pomocí PCFG
Type
conference paper
Language
english
Authors
Hranický Radek, Ing., Ph.D. (DIFS FIT BUT)
Lištiak Filip, Ing. (FIT BUT)
Mikuš Dávid, Ing. (FIT BUT)
Ryšavý Ondřej, doc. Ing., Ph.D. (DIFS FIT BUT)
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Keywords

password,cracking,security,grammar

Abstract

When users choose passwords to secure their computers,
data, or Internet service accounts, they tend to create passwords that
are easy to remember. Probabilistic methods for password cracking profit
from this fact, and allow the attackers and forensic investigators to guess
user passwords more precisely. In this paper, we present our additions
to a technique based on probabilistic context-free grammars. By modifi-
cation of existing principles, we show how to guess more passwords for
the same time, and how to reduce the total number of guesses without
higher impact on success rate.

Published
2019
Pages
43-60
Journal
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 33, no. 11559, ISSN 0302-9743
Proceedings
Data and Applications Security and Privacy
Conference
Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy, Charleston, SC, USA, US
ISBN
978-3-030-22478-3
Publisher
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Place
Charleston, US
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-22479-0_3
UT WoS
000560794600003
EID Scopus
2-s2.0-85069490958
BibTeX 
@INPROCEEDINGS{FITPUB11955,
   author = "Radek Hranick\'{y} and Filip Li\v{s}tiak and D\'{a}vid Miku\v{s} and Ond\v{r}ej Ry\v{s}av\'{y}",
   title = "On Practical Aspects of PCFG Password Cracking",
   pages = "43--60",
   booktitle = "Data and Applications Security and Privacy",
   journal = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
   volume = 33,
   number = 11559,
   year = 2019,
   location = "Charleston, US",
   publisher = "Springer Nature Switzerland AG",
   ISBN = "978-3-030-22478-3",
   ISSN = "0302-9743",
   doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-22479-0\_3",
   language = "english",
   url = "https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/11955"
}
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