Publication Details

Title: A Study of Password Security
Author: M. Luby and C. Rackoff
Group: ICSI Technical Reports
Date: February 1989
PDF: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/techreports/tr-89-005.pdf

Overview:
We prove relationships between the security of a function generator when used in an encryption scheme and the security of a function generator when used in a UNIX-like password scheme.

Bibliographic Information:
ICSI Technical Report TR-89-005

Bibliographic Reference:
M. Luby and C. Rackoff. A Study of Password Security. ICSI Technical Report TR-89-005, February 1989