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alpha-guesswork: a standalone construct

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Usable security

a measure of a password distribution's strength against an attacker who only needs to compromise a fraction alpha of accounts.

In usable security, alpha-guesswork refers to a measure of a password distribution's strength against an attacker who only needs to compromise a fraction alpha of accounts. This meaning comes from Bonneau (2012) in 2012 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.[1]

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accounts1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct alpha3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs distribution2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

Bonneau, J. (2012). The Science of Guessing: Analyzing an Anonymized Corpus of 70 Million Passwords. 2012 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. https://doi.org/10.1109/sp.2012.49

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