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password guessability: a standalone construct

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Usable security

password strength measured as the number of guesses a realistic cracking algorithm needs to recover a password.

In usable security, password guessability refers to password strength measured as the number of guesses a realistic cracking algorithm needs to recover a password. This meaning comes from Kelley (2012) in 2012 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.[1]

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References

Kelley, P. G., Komanduri, S., Mazurek, M. L., Shay, R., Vidas, T., Bauer, L., Christin, N., Cranor, L. F., & Lopez, J. (2012). Guess Again (and Again and Again): Measuring Password Strength by Simulating Password-Cracking Algorithms. 2012 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. https://doi.org/10.1109/sp.2012.38

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