...Bhaveer Bhana; Stephen Vincent Flowerday Purpose The average employee spends a total of 18.6 h every two months on password-related activities, including password retries and resets. The problem is caused by the user forgetting or mistyping the password (usually because of character switching...

...Joakim Kävrestad; Johan Zaxmy; Marcus Nohlberg Purpose Using passwords to keep account and data safe is very common in modern computing. The purpose of this paper is to look into methods for cracking passwords as a means of increasing security, a practice commonly used in penetration testing...

...Verena Zimmermann; Nina Gerber; Peter Mayer; Marius Kleboth; Alexandra von Preuschen; Konstantin Schmidt Purpose Six years ago, Bonneau et al. (2012) proposed a framework to compare authentication schemes to the ubiquitous text password. Even though their work did not reveal...

...Mark Ciampa Purpose – Text-based passwords created by users are typically weak. A common mitigation is to provide meaningful feedback to users regarding the relative strength of their newly created password. However, the effects of these feedback mechanisms on users to create stronger passwords...