INCREASE ENTROPY OF USER-CHOSEN PASSWORDS VIA DATA MANAGEMENT

摘要

A method, computer readable medium and apparatus for providing data security for a computing environment having a plurality of nodes are provided. The apparatus comprises of a password mechanism residing in a storage location in the computing environment; and a user specific dictionary including entries generated by the password mechanism about each user by retrieving available data from one or more publicly available databases. The password mechanism rejects a proposed password for the user by comparing it with entries in the user specific dictionary when the proposed password matches at least part of any entry in the user specific dictionary.