[paper] On the security of Linux user passwords

This is a paper I wrote for one of my courses at university.

From the abstract:
In this paper we determine the security of user passwords on Linux
based operating systems. We have a look at the two basic security mech-
anisms passwords are created and stored using a reference Linux distri-
bution, locate common attack vectors and propose available countermea-
sures.

link to paper

brute-force, crack, linux, password, security, user

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