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    A password, sometimes called a passcode, is secret data, typically a string of characters, usually used to confirm a user's identity. Traditionally, passwords...
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  • In cryptanalysis and computer security, password cracking is the process of guessing passwords protecting a computer system. A common approach (brute-force...
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    Password strength is a measure of the effectiveness of a password against guessing or brute-force attacks. In its usual form, it estimates how many trials...
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  • the most common passwords, discovered in various data breaches. Common passwords generally are not recommended on account of low password strength. NordPass...
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  • Password Plus and Super Password are American TV game shows that aired separately between 1979 and 1989. Both shows were revivals of Password, which originally...
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  • information. Password may also refer to: Password (2019 Bangladeshi film), starring Shakib Khan Password (2019 Indian film), starring Dev Password (2019 Nepali...
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    The Password Game is a 2023 puzzle browser game developed by Neal Agarwal, where the player creates a password that follows increasingly unusual and complicated...
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    one-time password (OTP), also known as a one-time PIN, one-time passcode, one-time authorization code (OTAC) or dynamic password, is a password that is...
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    derives one or more secret keys from a secret value such as a master key, a password, or a passphrase using a pseudorandom function (which typically uses a...
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    A password manager is a software program to prevent password fatigue by automatically generating, autofilling and storing passwords. It can do this for...
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    Time-based one-time password (TOTP) is a computer algorithm that generates a one-time password (OTP) using the current time as a source of uniqueness....
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  • Password is an American television game show. Two teams, each composed of a celebrity and contestant, attempt to convey mystery words to each other using...
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  • data fed as an additional input to a one-way function that hashes data, a password or passphrase. Salting helps defend against attacks that use precomputed...
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  • bcrypt is a password-hashing function designed by Niels Provos and David Mazières, based on the Blowfish cipher and presented at USENIX in 1999. Besides...
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    KeePass Password Safe is a free and open-source password manager primarily for Windows. It officially supports macOS and Linux operating systems through...
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  • cracking password hashes. Passwords are typically stored not in plain text form, but as hash values. If such a database of hashed passwords falls into...
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  • and password) for this access to these computers across a public network in an unsecured way poses a great risk of 3rd parties obtaining the password and...
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    from their password, rather than the whole password, partial passwords help to protect the user from password theft. As only part of the password is revealed...
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  • Master Password is a type of algorithm first implemented by Maarten Billemont for creating unique passwords in a reproducible manner. It differs from traditional...
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  • challenge-response protocol is password authentication, where the challenge is asking for the password and the valid response is the correct password. An adversary who...
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  • A password policy is a set of rules designed to enhance computer security by encouraging users to employ strong passwords and use them properly. A password...
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    Passwords is a password manager application developed by Apple Inc. available for devices running iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia, and visionOS 2 or...
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    including a master password to prevent casual access to a user's passwords. Chrome developers have indicated that a master password does not provide real...
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    blanking local passwords used by Windows NT operating systems on Linux. It does this by editing the SAM database where Windows stores password hashes. There...
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  • HMAC-based one-time password (HOTP) is a one-time password (OTP) algorithm based on HMAC. It is a cornerstone of the Initiative for Open Authentication...
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    for an HTTP user agent (e.g. a web browser) to provide a user name and password when making a request. In basic HTTP authentication, a request contains...
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    Phishing (redirect from Password phishing)
    image with any forms that request a password. Users of the bank's online services were instructed to enter a password only when they saw the image they...
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  • below includes the names of notable of password managers with their Wikipedia articles. Password manager Password fatigue Comparison of TOTP applications...
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  • The Secure Remote Password protocol (SRP) is an augmented password-authenticated key exchange (PAKE) protocol, specifically designed to work around existing...
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    A random password generator is a software program or hardware device that takes input from a random or pseudo-random number generator and automatically...
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