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02 Mar 2017

Using Ordered Markov Chains and User Information to speed up Password Cracking - Fsecurify

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    Title: Using Ordered Markov Chains and User Information to speed up Password Cracking - Fsecurify
    Link: http://fsecurify.com/using-ordered-markov-chains-and-user-information-to-speed-up-password-cracking/

    Excellent; using Markov chains to predict next possible character.

    Using 2 grams and some more social information like date of birth, we see that 32.5% users use some of their social information in their passwords. Here’s the query.