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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 25, 2013
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Hong Li, Folsom, CA (US);
Tobias M. Kohlenberg, Portland, OR (US);
Lawrence Hurst, San Francisco, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to manage password security. An example apparatus includes an alarm action engine to invoke a provisional transmission block in response to detecting entry of a candidate password, a password linkage monitor to retrieve a list of password hash values associated with previously used passwords, and to compare the list of password hash values to a hash of the candidate password, the alarm action engine to invoke a permanent block of the candidate password when a match condition occurs between the hash of the candidate password and a hash of one of the list of password hash values.