Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Systems and methods for generating passwords
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Application No.: US16000920Application Date: 2018-06-06
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Publication No.: US10797870B1Publication Date: 2020-10-06
- Inventor: Duong Nguyen-Huu , Bruce McCorkendale
- Applicant: Symantec Corporation
- Applicant Address: US AZ Tempe
- Assignee: NortonLifeLock Inc.
- Current Assignee: NortonLifeLock Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US AZ Tempe
- Agency: FisherBroyles LLP
- Main IPC: H04L9/08
- IPC: H04L9/08 ; H04L29/06 ; H04L29/08 ; G06F21/46 ; G06F16/9038

Abstract:
The disclosed computer-implemented method for generating passwords may include (i) accessing a vault of confidential information describing a user, (ii) extracting, from the vault, a set of multiple items of confidential information describing the user, (iii) executing a programmed heuristic on the set of multiple items of confidential information to generate multiple candidate passwords that each derives from a respective semirandom permutation of the multiple items of confidential information, and (iv) displaying electronically the multiple candidate passwords to the user to enable the user to select a password from the multiple candidate passwords as a specific password for accessing a protected computing resource. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
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