The domino effect of password reuse

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 75-78

  Ives, Blake ^a   Walsh, Kenneth R ^b   Schneider, Helmut ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PASSWORD SECURITY; PUBLIC-KEY INFRASTRUCTURE (PKI); USER AUTHENTICATION;

COMPUTER CRIME; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INTRANETS; LEGACY SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 4243096135     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/975817.975820     Document Type: Review

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