Improving Deep Learning Based Password Guessing Models Using Pre-processing

• Published in: Information and Communications Security Vol. 13407; pp. 163 - 183
• Main Authors: Wu, Yuxuan, Wang, Ding, Zou, Yunkai, Huang, Ziyi
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 2022; Springer International Publishing
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Deep learning; Generative Adversarial Networks; Long Short-Term Memory neural networks; Password; Preprocessing

Passwords are the most widely used authentication method and play an important role in users’ digital lives. Password guessing models are generally used to understand password security, yet statistic-based password models (like the Markov model and probabilistic context-free grammars (PCFG)) are sub...