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Passwords and the evolution of imperfect authentication
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Theory on passwords has lagged practice, where large providers use back-end smarts to survive with imperfect technology.
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The Quest to Replace Passwords: A Framework for Comparative Evaluation of Web Authentication Schemes
Bonneau, J., Herley, C., Oorschot, P. C. V., & Stajano, F. (2012) · 2012 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy · doi:10.1109/sp.2012.44 · Cited by 1,110
Self-citationMassey, J. L. (2002) · Proceedings of 1994 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory · doi:10.1109/isit.1994.394764 · Cited by 463 · cited 2×
“A more direct metric is guesswork (G) [25], the expected number of queries by an adversary guessing individual passwords sequentially until all are found.”
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UniPass: design and evaluation of a smart device-based password manager for visually impaired users
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bonneau, J., Herley, C., van Oorschot, P. C., & Stajano, F.
- Venue
- Communications of the ACM
- Published
- 2015-06-25
- Volume
- 58
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 78-87
- ISSN
- 0001-0782 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-7317
- OpenAlex
- W2218132318
- Cited by
- 258
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 62.17
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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