Foiling the cracker: A survey of, and improvements to, password security
Daniel V. Klein · 1992
With the rapid burgeoning of national and international networks, the question of system security has become one of growing importance. High speed inter-machine communication and even higher speed computational processors have made the threats of system ‘‘crackers,’ ’ data theft, data corruption very real. This paper outlines some of the problems of current password security by demonstrating the ease by which indi-vidual accounts may be broken. Various techniques used by crackers are outlined, and finally one solution to this point of system vulnerability, a proactive password checker, is proposed. 1.