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Abel Sanchez.
Madero, Alvaro
System Design and Management Program.
System Design and Management Program.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division
2014-10-08T15:23:02Z
2014-10-08T15:23:02Z
2013
2013
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90691
890940995
Thesis: S.M. in Engineering and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, System Design and Management Program, 2013.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 50-52).
Today's industry, government, and critical infrastructure are dependent on software systems. In their absence, our modern world would come to a stop. Given our dependence, the mounting cyber threat is of critical concern. In the majority of our systems, passwords are the keys to the system. Unfortunately, there has been little innovation and vulnerabilities keep mounting. Even with established and well known defenses, no authority has emerged to establish policies or laws that guarantee their implementation. The response has been more complex passwords. This is not working. This thesis presents the state of the practice in password systems and introduces work in Negative Authentication and its implementations.
by Alvaro Madero.
S.M. in Engineering and Management
55 pages
eng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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