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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2018
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Duong Nguyen-Huu, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Bruce McCorkendale, Manhattan Beach, CA (US);
NortonLifeLock Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);
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.