![]() ![]() So, in KPM’s passwords, ‘he’ appears more often than ‘qx’ or ‘zr.’īédrune explained in the blog post that if an attacker can deduce that KPM creates the password, the password generator’s bias can work against it. But this method relies heavily on the ‘a’ and ‘e’ in a password that a human creates than ‘x’ or ‘j’ or ‘th’ of the bigrams. KPM uses a technique to make those letters that aren’t often used appear more frequently to trick password cracking tools. However, such method lowers the strength of the generated passwords against dedicated tools,” wrote head of security research at Ledger Donjon, Jean-Baptiste Bédrune. “This method aimed to create passwords hard to break for standard password crackers. SEE: PasswordState password manager’s update hijacked to drop malwareįurthermore, it uses the system time as its seed, so if a hacker correlates it with the account creation, they can narrow down the results to around a hundred guesses, and in vague cases, this number wouldn’t still be higher than a thousand. Researchers wrote that KPM’s password generation method is somewhat complex as it involves random floats followed by a multiplication step to enhance entropy and dictionary infrequency-based character picking. Researchers claim that they started analyzing Kaspersky’s password manager two years ago and identified that any program could guess the tool’s generated passwords within seconds. According to Donjon, a security research team at Ledger passwords generated by KPM are so weak that it is easy to brute-force them. If you are using Kaspersky Password Manager (KPM) for creating passwords, you might want to consider regenerating those you created before October 2019.
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