Strength Analysis of Real-Life Passwords Using Markov Models

• Published in: Applied sciences Vol. 11; no. 20; p. 9406
• Main Authors: Taneski, Viktor, Kompara, Marko, Heričko, Marjan, Brumen, Boštjan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.10.2021
• Subjects: Datasets; Information systems; Markov chains; Markov models; password analysis; password score; password strength; Passwords; Social networks; Sparsity

Recent literature proposes the use of a proactive password checker as method for preventing users from creating easy-to-guess passwords. Markov models can help us create a more effective password checker that would be able to check the probability of a given password to be chosen by an attacker. We...