Although passphrases, or phrase-based passwords, have been found to be more secure than traditional passwords, human factors issues such as typographical errors and memory have slowed their wider adoption. Kevin Juang and Joel Greenstein, in their recently published Human Factors article developed and tested two new passphrase systems that seek to address these shortcomings and… Continue reading Easier Passwords
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“Facelock”: Passwords You Can Actually Remember!
If you have trouble remembering all your Internet passwords, Senior Moments aren’t necessarily to blame! Researchers in the UK maintain that forgetting passwords is an endemic problem for users and IT managers alike. As a solution, the scientists have developed a newly proposed alternative based on the psychology of face recognition.