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TISSEC
2008
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On predictive models and user-drawn graphical passwords
In commonplace text-based password schemes, users typically choose passwords that are easy to recall, exhibit patterns, and are thus vulnerable to brute-force dictionary attacks. ...
Paul C. van Oorschot, Julie Thorpe
CCS
2007
ACM
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Do background images improve "draw a secret" graphical passwords?
Draw a secret (DAS) is a representative graphical password scheme. Rigorous theoretical analysis suggests that DAS supports an overall password space larger than that of the ubiqu...
Paul Dunphy, Jeff Yan
ICC
2008
IEEE
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Secret Little Functions and Codebook for Protecting Users from Password Theft
—In this paper, we discuss how to prevent users’ passwords from being stolen by adversaries. We propose differentiated security mechanisms in which a user has the freedom to ch...
Yang Xiao, Chung-Chih Li, Ming Lei, Susan V. Vrbsk...