Pretty good persuasion: A first step towards effective password security in the real world

Proceedings New Security Paradigms Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 137-143

  Weirich, Dirk ^a   Sasse, Martina Angela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive task analysis; Mental models; Motivation; Passwords; Security; User training; User centered design

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CRIME; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DATA PRIVACY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SECURITY SYSTEMS;

COGNITIVE TASK ANALYSIS; MENTAL MODELS; PASSWORD SECURITY; USER CENTERED DESIGN; USER TRAINING;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 0242708745     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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