Anatomy of a Proactive Password Changer
Matt Bishop, B. D. Hall · 2004
The issue of poor user selection of passwords has been discussed in many papers [5][6] and need not berepeated here. Among the techniques used to overcome these problems are random generation of passwords [2], challenge-response techniques [4], key crunching [3], and the examination of user-selected passwordseither by cracking them or by analyzing them before allowing the password to be changed. In this paper we look at a program specifically designed to do the latter.