The present article reports a survey conducted to identify the practices on passwords usage,
focusing particularly on memory limitations and the use of passwords across individuals with …

A survey evaluating the generation and use of passwords revealed that students have 8.18
password uses. With 4.45 different passwords to cover these functions, the average …

Research has shown that password security practices typically conflict with general usability
principles. Though the challenges faced by low‐literacy users when creating and managing …

While past work has examined password usage on a specific computer, web site, or
organization, there is little work examining overall password usage in daily life. Through a …

Passwords remain the most common form of authentication in the digital world. People have
increasing numbers of passwords, and many people undertake risky password …

Why don't individuals follow the best information security practices? We address an aspect
of this question by focusing on one of the most common authentication methods–passwords …

The most commonly used method of identification and authentication for many Web sites is
username-password combinations. However, this is a notoriously weak security method …

We performed two surveys to understand how members of a university managed their
passwords. At password creation, the university offered people four pre‐generated random …

Due to increasing security awareness of password from the public and little attention on the
characteristics of real-life passwords, it is thus natural to understand the current state of …

Password reuse and modification are insecure password behaviors that are becoming
increasingly prevalent as users are obliged to remember more passwords to access various …