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Publication type: | Conference paper |
Type of review: | Peer review (publication) |
Title: | Breaking : password entry is fine |
Authors: | Pidel, Catie Jo Neuhaus, Stephan |
DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-22351-9_5 10.21256/zhaw-5036 |
Proceedings: | HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust |
Conference details: | 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Orlando, USA, 26-31 July 2019 |
Issue Date: | 2019 |
Series: | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
Series volume: | 11594 |
Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Springer |
ISBN: | 978-3-030-22350-2 978-3-030-22351-9 |
Language: | English |
Subjects: | Security; Password; Usability; Data entry error; Mobile security |
Subject (DDC): | 005: Computer programming, programs and data |
Abstract: | In our digital world, we have become well acquainted with the login form – username shown as plaintext, password shown as asterisks or dots. This design dates back to the early days of terminal computing, and despite huge changes in nearly every other area, the humble login form remains largely untouched. When coupled with the ubiquity of smartphones, this means we often find ourselves entering complex passwords on a tiny touchscreen keyboard with little or no visual feedback on what has been typed. This paper explores how password masking on mobile devices affects the error rate for password entry. We created an app where users entered selected passwords into masked and unmasked password fields, measuring things like typing speed, error rate, and number of backspaces. We then did an exploratory data analysis for the data, and our findings show that, perhaps unexpectedly, there is no significant difference between masked and unmasked passwords for any of these metrics. |
URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/15598 |
Fulltext version: | Accepted version |
License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
Departement: | School of Engineering |
Organisational Unit: | Institute of Computer Science (InIT) |
Appears in collections: | Publikationen School of Engineering |
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Pidel, C. J., & Neuhaus, S. (2019). Breaking : password entry is fine. HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22351-9_5
Pidel, C.J. and Neuhaus, S. (2019) ‘Breaking : password entry is fine’, in HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust. Springer. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22351-9_5.
C. J. Pidel and S. Neuhaus, “Breaking : password entry is fine,” in HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust, 2019. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-22351-9_5.
PIDEL, Catie Jo und Stephan NEUHAUS, 2019. Breaking : password entry is fine. In: HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust. Conference paper. Springer. 2019. ISBN 978-3-030-22350-2
Pidel, Catie Jo, and Stephan Neuhaus. 2019. “Breaking : Password Entry Is Fine.” Conference paper. In HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22351-9_5.
Pidel, Catie Jo, and Stephan Neuhaus. “Breaking : Password Entry Is Fine.” HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust, Springer, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22351-9_5.
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