This is a short and concise presentation on time-memory trade-off (TMTO) attacks, devised by Martin Hellman, given as part of coursework for professor Mark Stamp, San Jose State University.
Here is an outline of a book I started to write in 2003 on passwords. At the time I had a few months away from work and I decided to return to some basics in security, and I started with passwords ...
METAPHORS OF THE DEEP: DOWN WITH FIREWALLS. Why are we so obsessed with keeping people out of our lives? Why I think we should tear down a few of our firewalls and start sharing again.
Mylatch.com Code Easy Target for Hackers - Cyber criminals could easily use security holes in the Mylatch job website to steal your personal data and Facebook & LinkedIn passwords.
The Mylatch webs...
Ha! Hackers at work too > "The motive is to steal confidential information that the hacker will use to make a profit, says Patrik Runald, chief security advisor at F-Secure, a security firm. The ty...
This white paper discusses various methods of password recovery and defines what makes a strong password. You can also learn about ElcomSoft password recovery solutions for MS Office files, Adobe P...
Learn to create highly secure passwords that will make hackers keep guessing. Discover important information and the five categories of password characters.
The attacker is trying to find a 16-byte AES key k, given the 16 bytes H(k) =
AESk (8675309). There’s nothing special about the number 8675309, or about
AES: this is a brute-force attack that app...
The guidelines described in this document provide a set of good practices related to the use of password-based user authentication
mechanisms in automatic data processing systems employed for proc...
This document provides a brief introduction to the mathematics of certain password characteristics. Rigor is introduced by conducting a number of repeatable experiments and examining the results. A...