MIT: Independent Activities Period: IAP

IAP 2014



Password strength estimation (Dropbox)

Dan Wheeler

Jan/31 Fri 05:00PM-06:00PM 4-237

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

Most software gives terrible password advice! Come learn the internal mechanics of zxcvbn, the open source password strength estimator developed at Dropbox, as well as some newer ideas to push the art forward. Topics include password cracker algorithms, pattern matching, entropy models, and dynamic programming. This talk is advanced but all levels will learn something.

This is the second of two talks being given by MIT alums currently working at Dropbox.

Sponsor(s): Student Information Processing Board
Contact: Dan Wheeler, sipb-iap-dropbox@mit.edu