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fuzzyPSM

Code for our 2016 IEEE/IFIP DSN paper "fuzzyPSM: A New Password Strength Meter Using Fuzzy Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars"

If you decide to use our code, please cite our paper 🤝.

When users create a new account, most of them (77.38%) simply retrieve one of their existing passwords from memory and then reuse (or slightly modify) it.

Based on this observation, we suggest a new password strength meter, named fuzzyPSM, that employs fuzzy probabilistic context-free grammar (PCFG).

This project comprises both Windows and Linux versions.

Research Paper

The paper is available at the IEEE Xplore. You can cite our work with the following BibTeX entry:

@inproceedings{wang2016fuzzypsm,
    author      = {
        Wang, Ding and 
        He, Debiao and 
        Cheng, Haibo and 
        Wang, Ping
    },
    booktitle   = {Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)},
    title       = {{fuzzyPSM: A New Password Strength Meter Using Fuzzy Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars}},
    year        = {2016},
    pages       = {595-606},
    doi         ={10.1109/DSN.2016.60}
}