Encountering stronger password requirements: user attitudes and behaviors

No abstract is available for this paper.

• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security

• Publication date

  2010-07-14

• Fields of study

  Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1145/1837110.1837113
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• The true cost of unusable password policies: password use in the wild

  2010cited by this paper
• So long, and no thanks for the externalities: the rational rejection of security advice by users

  2009cited by this paper
• A comprehensive simulation tool for the analysis of password policies

  2009cited by this paper
• Order and entropy in picture passwords

  2008cited by this paper
• Attitudes and practices of students towards password security

  2008cited by this paper
• Password policy simulation and analysis

  2007cited by this paper
• A large-scale study of web password habits

  2007cited by this paper
• Improving password security and memorability to protect personal and organizational information

  2007cited by this paper
• The usability of passphrases for authentication: An empirical field study

  2007cited by this paper
• Human selection of mnemonic phrase-based passwords

  2006cited by this paper
• A Mathematical Theory of Communication

  2006cited by this paper
• Password policy: the good, the bad, and the ugly

  2004cited by this paper
• Choosing passwords: security and human factors

  2002cited by this paper
• Improving computer security for authentication of users: Influence of proactive password restrictions

  2002cited by this paper
• Transforming the ‘Weakest Link’ — a Human/Computer Interaction Approach to Usable and Effective Security

  2001cited by this paper
• Password Security: An Empirical Study

  1999cited by this paper
• Improving system security via proactive password checking

  1995influential reference
• Guessing and entropy

  1994cited by this paper
• Note on the bias of information estimates

  1955cited by this paper
• Information theory in psychology : problems and methods

  1955cited by this paper
• The mathematical theory of communication

  1950cited by this paper

• “It’s Definitely New and Different…It’s Really Engaging”: Understanding the Power of Storytelling Towards Secure Password Creation

  2025cites this paper
• Questioning a security assumption: Are unique passwords harder to remember than reused or modified passwords?

  2025cites this paper
• MAYA: Addressing Inconsistencies in Generative Password Guessing through a Unified Benchmark

  2025cites this paper
• Password Strength Detection via Machine Learning: Analysis, Modeling, and Evaluation

  2025cites this paper
• Leaking LoRa: An Evaluation of Password Leaks and Knowledge Storage in Large Language Models

  2025cites this paper
• Understanding User Passwords Through Parsing Tree

  2025cites this paper
• SecPassGAN: Secure and Strong Password Generation Framework

  2025cites this paper
• Blocklisted Oblivious Pseudorandom Functions

  2025cites this paper
• Comparing experts' and users' perspectives on the use of password workarounds and the risk of data breaches

  2024cites this paper
• AuthZit: Personalized Visual-Spatial and Loci-Tagging Fallback Authentication

  2024cites this paper
• PagPassGPT: Pattern Guided Password Guessing via Generative Pretrained Transformer

  2024cites this paper
• Creating secure passwords through personalized user inputs

  2024cites this paper
• Hands-free multi-type character text entry in virtual reality

  2024cites this paper
• Evaluating password strength based on information spread on social networks: A combined approach relying on data reconstruction and generative models

  2024cites this paper
• Ethical hacking: real evaluation model of brute force attacks in password cracking

  2024cites this paper
• Robust Multi-Factor Authentication for WSNs With Dynamic Password Recovery

  2024cites this paper
• A Large-Scale Survey of Password Entry Practices on Non-Desktop Devices

  2024cites this paper
• Can Password Meter be More Effective Towards User Attention, Engagement, and Attachment?: A Study of Metaphor-based Designs

  2023cites this paper
• Password strength verification based on machine learning algorithms and LSTM recurrent neural networks

  2023cites this paper
• Multi-Class Classification Prediction Model for Password Strength Based on Deep Learning

  2023cites this paper
• Quantifying User Password Exposure to Third-Party CDNs

  2023cites this paper
• Evolution of Password Expiry in Companies: Measuring the Adoption of Recommendations by the German Federal Office for Information Security

  2023influential citation
• Designing a Random Password Generator Using Python Programming Language

  2023cites this paper
• GestureMeter: Design and Evaluation of a Gesture Password Strength Meter

  2023cites this paper
• An Empirical Analysis of Enterprise-Wide Mandatory Password Updates

  2023cites this paper
• New Algorithm of Weak Password Detection

  2023cites this paper
• Measuring Website Password Creation Policies At Scale

  2023cites this paper
• How memory anxiety can influence password security behavior

  2023cites this paper
• Password-Based Authentication and The Experiences of End Users

  2023cites this paper
• Investigating the Password Policy Practices of Website Administrators

  2023cites this paper
• A Two-Decade Retrospective Analysis of a University's Vulnerability to Attacks Exploiting Reused Passwords

  2023cites this paper
• Security and Privacy Failures in Popular 2FA Apps

  2023cites this paper
• Who is who in the age of service robots: The impact of robots’ demand for user identification in human-to-robot interactions

  2023cites this paper
• Behavioral attributes in password reuse: Analysis of password practices in work and personal spaces

  2022cites this paper
• A Survey on Password Guessing

  2022cites this paper
• User Perceptions of Five-Word Passwords

  2022cites this paper
• Password policies of most top websites fail to follow best practices

  2022cites this paper
• Two studies of the perceptions of risk, benefits and likelihood of undertaking password management behaviours

  2022cites this paper
• ”Your Eyes Tell You Have Used This Password Before”: Identifying Password Reuse from Gaze and Keystroke Dynamics

  2022cites this paper
• The Emotional Impact of Multi-Factor Authentication for University Students

  2022cites this paper
• Client-Side Hashing for Efficient Typo-Tolerant Password Checkers

  2022cites this paper
• "The Same PIN, Just Longer": On the (In)Security of Upgrading PINs from 4 to 6 Digits

  2022cites this paper
• Enhancing the user authentication process with colour memory cues

  2022cites this paper
• Secure Chess-Based Data Exchange and User Validation

  2022cites this paper
• LPG–PCFG: An Improved Probabilistic Context- Free Grammar to Hit Low-Probability Passwords

  2022cites this paper
• Is My Password Strong Enough?: A Study on User Perception in The Developing World

  2022cites this paper
• Cost-Asymmetric Memory Hard Password Hashing

  2022cites this paper
• Hybrid password meters for more secure passwords – a comprehensive study of password meters including nudges and password information

  2022cites this paper
• Energy-efficient distributed password hash computation on heterogeneous embedded system

  2022cites this paper
• Is Your Password Sexist? a Gamification-Based Analysis of the Cultural Context of Leaked Passwords

  2022cites this paper
• An Explainable Online Password Strength Estimator

  2021cites this paper
• Impact of Personality Types and Matching Messaging on Password Strength

  2021cites this paper
• Prioritizing security over usability: Strategies for how people choose passwords

  2021cites this paper
• Zipf’s law analysis on the leaked Iranian users’ passwords

  2021cites this paper
• LociMotion: Towards Learning a Strong Authentication Secret in a Single Session

  2021cites this paper
• "Get a red-hot poker and open up my eyes, it's so boring"1: Employee perceptions of cybersecurity training

  2021cites this paper
• Towards a Rigorous Statistical Analysis of Empirical Password Datasets

  2021cites this paper
• Don't Forget the Stuffing! Revisiting the Security Impact of Typo-Tolerant Password Authentication

  2021cites this paper
• Perceptions of Information Systems Security Compliance: An Empirical Study in Higher Education Setting

  2021cites this paper
• Out-of-the-Lab Research in Usable Security and Privacy

  2021cites this paper
• “Do this! Do that!, and Nothing will Happen” Do Specifications Lead to Securely Stored Passwords?

  2021cites this paper
• Password Strength Assessment on a Laptop Device using an Online Password Recovery Tool — Cain & Abel

  2021cites this paper
• Usability of the login authentication process: passphrases and passwords

  2021cites this paper
• Alice in Passphraseland: Assessing the Memorability of Familiar Vocabularies for System-Assigned Passphrases

  2021cites this paper
• ScholarWorks at WMU ScholarWorks at WMU

  2021cites this paper
• It is not as simple as that: Playing out password security trainings in order to nudge password changes

  2021cites this paper
• Leet Usage and Its Effect on Password Security

  2021cites this paper
• Understanding individual differences: factors affecting secure computer behaviour

  2021cites this paper
• Cyber Security Behaviour In Organisations

  2020cites this paper
• Gesture Authentication for Smartphones: Evaluation of Gesture Password Selection Policies

  2020cites this paper
• Password Strength Signaling: A Counter-Intuitive Defense Against Password Cracking

  2020cites this paper
• Indistinguishability and unextractablility of password-based authentication in blockchain

  2020cites this paper
• Password Policies vs. Usability: When Do Users Go “Bananas”?

  2020cites this paper
• The password is dead, long live the password - A laboratory study on user perceptions of authentication schemes

  2020cites this paper
• A Study of Password Security Factors among Bangladeshi Government Websites

  2020cites this paper
• Emerging Technologies for Authorization and Authentication: Third International Workshop, ETAA 2020, Guildford, UK, September 18, 2020, Proceedings

  2020cites this paper
• An Efficient Security Model for Password Generation and Time Complexity Analysis for Cracking the Password

  2020cites this paper
• Constructing secure and memorable passwords

  2020cites this paper
• MoiPrivacy: Design and Evaluation of a Personal Password Meter

  2020cites this paper
• SafetyPin: Encrypted Backups with Human-Memorable Secrets

  2020cites this paper
• The Cost of Having Been Pwned: A Security Service Provider's Perspective

  2020cites this paper
• Credentials Safety and System Security Pay-off and Trade-off: Comfort Level Security Assurance Framework

  2020cites this paper
• An Improvement In Password Protection Overriding Trade-Off Between Security And Usability

  2020cites this paper
• Introducing a Machine Learning Password Metric Based on EFKM Clustering Algorithm

  2020cites this paper
• PassTag: A Graphical-Textual Hybrid Fallback Authentication System

  2020cites this paper
• Passwords: Divided they Stand, United they Fall

  2020cites this paper
• An Empirical Analysis on the Usability and Security of Passwords

  2020cites this paper
• Information Signaling: A Counter-Intuitive Defense Against Password Cracking

  2020cites this paper
• Making More Extensive and Efficient Typo-Tolerant Password Checkers

  2020cites this paper
• Empathy as a Response to Frustration in Password Choice

  2020cites this paper
• Costs and Benefits of Authentication Advice

  2020cites this paper
• Not Annoying the User for Better Password Choice: Effect of Incidental Anger Emotion on Password Choice

  2020cites this paper
• Cyber Security Behaviour In Organisations

  2020cites this paper
• Giving Motivation for Using Secure Credentials through User Authentication by Game

  2020cites this paper
• A Case Study of Graphical Passwords in a Chinese University

  2020cites this paper
• Rejecting the death of passwords: Advice for the future

  2019cites this paper
• Online Password Guessability via Multi-Dimensional Rank Estimation

  2019cites this paper
• Attitudes towards biometric authentication technologies between cultures : acceptance in Finland And Brazil

  2019influential citation
• Strong Password Generation Based On User Inputs

  2019cites this paper
• Detecting stuffing of a user's credentials at her own accounts

  2019cites this paper