User authentication involves establishing a user's right to access a system. Most user authentication is done with text passwords, which have advantages over other approaches...
Usable security has unique usability challenges because the need for security often means that standard humancomputer-interaction approaches cannot be directly applied. An importa...
Sonia Chiasson, Alain Forget, Robert Biddle, Paul ...
This doctoral research aims to persuade users to choose and remember more secure text passwords. The first component involved user studies demonstrating that users can be persuade...
Text-based passwords alone are subject to dictionary attacks as users tend to choose weak passwords in favor of memorability, as well as phishing attacks. Many recognition-based gr...
Inspired by an old Chinese game, Go, we have designed a new graphical password scheme, Pass-Go, in which a user selects intersections on a grid as a way to input a password. While...