password-protected software

  • 1Password strength — is a measurement of the effectiveness of a password as an authentication credential. Specifically, it estimates how many trials an attacker who does not have direct access to the password would need, on average, to correctly guess it. The… …

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  • 2Password fatigue — describes the syndrome where people are required to remember an excessive number of passwords as part of their daily living. The increasing prominence of information technology and the Internet in employment, finance, recreation and other aspects …

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  • 3Password — For other uses, see Password (disambiguation). A password is a secret word or string of characters that is used for authentication, to prove identity or gain access to a resource (example: an access code is a type of password). The password… …

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  • 4Password cracking — is the process of recovering passwords from data that has been stored in or transmitted by a computer system. A common approach is to repeatedly try guesses for the password. The purpose of password cracking might be to help a user recover a… …

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  • 5Password manager — A password manager is software that helps a user organize passwords and PIN codes. The software typically has a local database or a file that holds the encrypted password data for secure logon onto computers, networks, web sites and application… …

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  • 6Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol — PEAP is also an acronym for Personal Egress Air Packs. Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol, Protected EAP, or simply PEAP (pronounced peep ), is a method to securely transmit authentication information, including passwords, over wired or …

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  • 7Ghost (software) — Ghost Symantec′s Norton Ghost v.15 home screen Original author(s) Murray Haszard Developer(s) Symantec …

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  • 9AVG (software) — Infobox software name = AVG Internet Security caption = AVG Internet Security, version 8 under Windows Vista developer = AVG Technologies, s.r.o. latest release version = 8.0.173 latest release date = release date|2008|9|29 operating system =… …

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  • 10Disk encryption software — To protect confidentiality of the data stored on a computer disk a computer security technique called disk encryption is used. This article discusses software that is used to implement the technique (for cryptographic aspects of the problem see… …

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