ARMOR: Adversary Cost Amplification via a Schema-Preserving Password-Hardening Retrofit for Resource-Constrained Systems
ARMOR proposes a backward-compatible password-hardening retrofit for resource-constrained IoT gateways and edge devices—addressing offline credential-guessing risk without replacing existing schemas.
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arXiv:2610.14300v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Credential-database disclosure exposes Internet of Things gateways, edge servers and legacy verifiers to offline password guessing. Memory-hard key derivation functions (KDFs) are preferred but can exceed constrained-device budgets. ARMOR addresses this deployment gap with a schema-preserving verifier-side transform for database-only compromise, assuming an isolated Chain Registry. The registry holds secret per-account chains of injective oper
Editorial Analysis
IoT gateways and edge servers often lack memory-hard KDFs due to resource limits; a drop-in retrofit could materially reduce offline brute-force risk across constrained-device fleets.
Assess ARMOR's applicability to your constrained-device estate where legacy credential stores cannot support full KDF upgrades.
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