Securing passfaces for description

SOUPS 2008 - Proceedings of the 4th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 24-34

  Dunphy, Paul ^a   Nicholson, James ^a   Olivier, Patrick ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Description; Graphical passwords; Passfaces

Indexed keywords

ALPHANUMERIC PASSWORDS; DESCRIPTION; GRAPHICAL PASSWORDS; PASSFACES; VISUAL SIMILARITIES;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 65449144442     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1408664.1408668     Document Type: Conference Paper

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