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most citedInvestigating the Distribution of Password Choices

128 citations · 142 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.CR2020

Costs and benefits of authentication advice

Hazel Murray, David Malone

Authentication security advice is given with the goal of guiding users and organisations towards secure actions and practices. In this paper, we demonstrate that security advice ca…

quant-ph2020★ 3 cited

Implementing a Quantum Coin Scheme

Hazel Murray, Jerry Horgan, Joao F. Santos +2

Quantum computing has the power to break current cryptographic systems, disrupting online banking, shopping, data storage and communications. Quantum computing also has the power t…

cs.CR2020

Multi-armed bandit approach to password guessing

Hazel Murray, David Malone

The multi-armed bandit is a mathematical interpretation of the problem a gambler faces when confronted with a number of different machines (bandits). The gambler wants to explore d…

cs.CR2018★ 4 cited

Exploring the Impact of Password Dataset Distribution on Guessing

Hazel Murray, David Malone

Leaks from password datasets are a regular occurrence. An organization may defend a leak with reassurances that just a small subset of passwords were taken. In this paper we show t…

cs.CR2017★ 7 cited

Evaluating Password Advice

Hazel Murray, David Malone

Password advice is constantly circulated by standards agencies, companies, websites and specialists. But there appears to be great diversity in terms of the advice that is given. U…

cs.CR2011★ 128 cited

Investigating the Distribution of Password Choices

David Malone, Kevin Maher

In this paper we will look at the distribution with which passwords are chosen. Zipf's Law is commonly observed in lists of chosen words. Using password lists from four different o…