Brute force attack on Unix passwords with SIMD computer

8th USENIX Security Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages

  Kedem, Gershon ^a   Ishihara, Yuriko ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HASH FUNCTIONS; UNIX;

BRUTE-FORCE ATTACK; COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY; ONE WAY HASH FUNCTIONS; PARALLEL MACHINE; PASSWORD SCHEMES; SIMD MACHINES; SIMPLE MODIFICATIONS; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES;

AUTHENTICATION;

EID: 85084164254     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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