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Record Nr.

UNINA9910709596603321

Autore

Greene Kristen K

Titolo

Measuring the usability and security of permuted passwords on mobile platforms / / Kristen K. Greene; John Kelsey; Joshua M. Franklin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gaithersburg, MD : , : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, , 2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (65 pages) : illustrations (color)

Collana

NISTIR ; ; 8040

Altri autori (Persone)

FranklinJoshua M

GreeneKristen K

KelseyJohn

Soggetti

Computers - Access control - Passwords

Mobile communication systems

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

April 2016.

Contributed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes.

Title from PDF title page (viewed April 30, 2016).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Password entry on mobile devices significantly impacts both usability and security, but there is a lack of usable security research in this area, specifically for complex password entry. To address this research gap, we set out to assign strength metrics to passwords for which we already had usability data, in an effort to have a more meaningful comparison between usability and security. This document reports a method of optimizing the input of randomly generated passwords on mobile devices via password permutation to allow for a comparison of password usability data. We found that the number of keystrokes saved the efficiency gained via permutation depends on the number of onscreen keyboard changes required in the original password rather than on password length. Additionally, we created and are releasing Python scripts (publicly available from https://github.com/usnistgov/PasswordMetrics) for the experiments on entropy loss we conducted across passwords ranging in length from 5 to 20



characters.