Whitepaper discussing information leakage and password extraction from a BIOS.
484b3c11908948f9c7311f87b66bf5e1Password article that discusses common attacks and possible solutions.
178ad30a02340076118e78e5635f87d7Paper written about the art of brute force cracking that comes with example code.
97b6bcfd74b5fe9ce55a5aa8cf7f0e8cDepartment of Defense Password Management Guideline: Enumerates a number of good password management practices
35c256b895bd29c27123833e43386a56Standard for Automated Password Generator: Federal Information Processing Standard No 181
0ad16ceab5c5acc0451a1d730b6cbdd1Foiling the Cracker: A Survey of, and Improvements to, Password Security: Demonstrates the ease with which most passwords can be guessed by a motivated attacker
d4ec4e1eb00620466cf41ac2973da126Observing Reusable Password Choices: A method for observing password choices made by users, and how to protect it from being compromised
0bf911f81dc86a4d7e1cae890e3664eeOPUS: Preventing Weak Password Choices. A system that uses Bloom filters to implement a constant-time dictionary lookup, regardless of dictionary size, to check a user's password choice for " goodness"
b478c75bd2448446dfe48dcb6ae7254dUser Authentication and Related Topics: An Annotated Bibliography
f06034f3296f337407bb218d2af952c0Password Security: A Case History: A description of the original UNIX password algorithm, and the reasons for replacing it with the current one
4b0c98ae2cc80812a1b4df0a69678dacUNIX Password Security - Ten Years Later: A reexamination of the UNIX password algorithm after ten years of advances in software and hardware
add317fd31b7e8dcbfdbbcd011023202The S/Key One-Time Password System: A freely available implementation of one-time passwords
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