作者
Wanli Ma, John Campbell, Dat Tran, Dale Kleeman
发表日期
2007/1
期刊
International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security
卷号
7
期号
1
页码范围
179-185
简介
Password authentication is the most widely used authentication mechanism, and it will still be with us for many years yet to come. It is effective, simple, and accurate, with no extra cost. The strength of password authentication relies on the strength of the passwords. Good (or strong) passwords are essential for high level security. End user education and computerized proactive password checking play vital roles in ensuring good passwords. However, both demand clear, simple, and concise rules on what a good password is. It is not hard to find guidelines and advices on good passwords; but it is not so easy to find a clear, simple, and concise rule to be used for end user education and computer programs for proactive password checking. In this paper, we develop a theoretic framework on measuring password quality–password quality indicator (PQI). A PQI of a password is a pair
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