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Cormac Herley
Researcher at Microsoft
Publications - 181
Citations - 12891
Cormac Herley is an academic researcher from Microsoft. The author has contributed to research in topics: Password & Filter bank. The author has an hindex of 52, co-authored 179 publications receiving 12310 citations. Previous affiliations of Cormac Herley include California Institute of Technology & Hewlett-Packard.
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Wavelets and filter banks: theory and design
Martin Vetterli,Cormac Herley +1 more
TL;DR: The perfect reconstruction condition is posed as a Bezout identity, and it is shown how it is possible to find all higher-degree complementary filters based on an analogy with the theory of Diophantine equations.
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A large-scale study of web password habits
Dinei Florencio,Cormac Herley +1 more
TL;DR: The study involved half a million users over athree month period and gets extremely detailed data on password strength, the types and lengths of passwords chosen, and how they vary by site.
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The Quest to Replace Passwords: A Framework for Comparative Evaluation of Web Authentication Schemes
TL;DR: It is concluded that many academic proposals to replace text passwords for general-purpose user authentication on the web have failed to gain traction because researchers rarely consider a sufficiently wide range of real-world constraints.
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So long, and no thanks for the externalities: the rational rejection of security advice by users
TL;DR: It is argued that users' rejection of the security advice they receive is entirely rational from an economic perspective, and most security advice simply offers a poor cost-benefit tradeoff to users and is rejected.
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Analyzing and Improving a BitTorrent Networks Performance Mechanisms
TL;DR: A simulationbased study of BitTorrent is presented and it is confirmed that BitTorrent performs near-optimally in terms of uplink bandwidth utilization, and download time except under certain extreme conditions, and that the rate-based tit-for-tat policy is not effective in preventing unfairness.