A large-scale study of web password habits

16th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 657-666

  Florencio, Dinei ^a   Herley, Cormac ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Authentication; Measurements; Password

Indexed keywords

AUTHENTICATION; NETWORK SECURITY; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

FREQUENCY METRICS; PASSWORD STRENGTH;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 35348884906     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1242572.1242661     Document Type: Conference Paper

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