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A note on proactive password checking. / Yan, Jeff.
New Security Paradigms Workshop: proceedings : September 10th-13th, 2001, Cloudcroft, NM, USA . New York: ACM, 2001. p. 127-135 (Proceedings of the 2001 New Security Paradigms Workshop).

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Yan, J 2001, A note on proactive password checking. in New Security Paradigms Workshop: proceedings : September 10th-13th, 2001, Cloudcroft, NM, USA . Proceedings of the 2001 New Security Paradigms Workshop, ACM, New York, pp. 127-135. https://doi.org/10.1145/508171.508194

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Yan, J. (2001). A note on proactive password checking. In New Security Paradigms Workshop: proceedings : September 10th-13th, 2001, Cloudcroft, NM, USA (pp. 127-135). (Proceedings of the 2001 New Security Paradigms Workshop). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/508171.508194

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Yan J. A note on proactive password checking. In New Security Paradigms Workshop: proceedings : September 10th-13th, 2001, Cloudcroft, NM, USA . New York: ACM. 2001. p. 127-135. (Proceedings of the 2001 New Security Paradigms Workshop). doi: 10.1145/508171.508194

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Yan, Jeff. / A note on proactive password checking. New Security Paradigms Workshop: proceedings : September 10th-13th, 2001, Cloudcroft, NM, USA . New York : ACM, 2001. pp. 127-135 (Proceedings of the 2001 New Security Paradigms Workshop).

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