March 08, 2004 (research)
Research Proposal
So this weekends goal was to get a chunk out of the preliminary research proposal, unfortunately yesturday i was stuck helping the new boss shift to the new office. Anyway after doing my reading for CompSec i realised none of my lit had been focussed on password policies. So, i searched through proquest, have a stack of links to have a read, and a few books which i'll have to try and grab from uni.
My structure so far goes something like this:
Background
Password Policies
One-Way hashing algorithms
Password cracking tools
Beowulf's and Cluster Hardware
Parallel Algorithm techniques
John the Ripper MPI
Significance
Passwords as a weakpoint
Other methods of authentication
Other methods of testing weak passwords
The significance might not be aimed at individual organisations, but for computer security firms?