METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC RECOVERY OF A PASSWORD TO ACCESS A SERVICE AND A COMPUTER USED THEREIN Russian patent published in 2017 - IPC G06F21/31 

FIELD: safety.

SUBSTANCE: present invention relates to computer security. Method for automatic recovery of a service-access password involves the following: receiving a request for password recovery; asking the user the first security question, which is connected to the history of user/web services interaction, wherein the first security question is connected to the first level of hardness; obtaining the user’s first response to the first security question; assigning the first response the first weighting coefficient, which depends on the first level of hardness; asking the user the second security question, which is connected to the history of user/web services interaction, wherein the second security question is connected to the second level of hardness; receiving the user’s second response to the second security question; assigning the user’s second response the second weighting coefficient, which depends on the second level of hardness; adding the first and second weighting coefficients; automatically restoring the password, if the sum of the first and second weighting coefficients exceeds the predetermined threshold; denying automatic recovery of the password, if the sum of the first and second weighting coefficients is less than the predetermined threshold.

EFFECT: technical result: improved reliability of procedure of password recovery.

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