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2. Password cracking - Wikipedia

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   The purpose of password cracking might be to help a user recover a forgotten password (due to the fact that installing an entirely new password would involve System Administration privileges), to gain unauthorized access to a system, or to act as a preventive measure whereby system administrators check for easily crackable passwords. On a file ...

3. Salt (cryptography) - Wikipedia

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   In cryptography, a salt is random data fed as an additional input to a one-way function that hashes data, a password or passphrase. [1] Salting helps defend against attacks that use precomputed tables (e.g. rainbow tables), by vastly growing the size of table needed for a successful attack.

4. List of the most common passwords - Wikipedia

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   The Worst Passwords List is an annual list of the 25 most common passwords from each year as produced by internet security firm SplashData. [4] Since 2011, the firm has published the list based on data examined from millions of passwords leaked in data breaches, mostly in North America and Western Europe, over each year.

5. Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator

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   In the asymptotic setting, a family of deterministic polynomial time computable functions : {,} {,} for some polynomial p, is a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG, or PRG in some references), if it stretches the length of its input (() > for any k), and if its output is computationally indistinguishable from true randomness, i.e. for any probabilistic polynomial time algorithm A, which ...

6. Keeper (password manager) - Wikipedia

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   Keeper offers a password manager that uses a freemium model for one device and a subscription-based model for households and businesses. [11] [12] [13] Keeper provides storage for passwords and passkeys, identity data, and financial data, along with a password generator and two-factor authentication.

7. Password manager - Wikipedia

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   Password managers can generate passwords [3] and fill online forms. [2] Password managers may exist as a mix of: computer applications, mobile applications, or as web browser extensions. [4] A password manager may assist in generating passwords, storing passwords, [1] [5] [6] usually in an encrypted database.