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Lookup NU author(s): Dr James Nicholson, Dr Vasilis Vlachokyriakos, Professor Pam Briggs, Professor Patrick OlivierORCiD
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© Dupré et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of British HCI 2018. Belfast, UK Recent security breaches have highlighted the consequences of reusing passwords across online accounts. Recent guidance on password policies by the UK government recommend an emphasis on password length over an extended character set for generating secure but memorable passwords without cognitive overload. This paper explores the role of three nudges in creating website-specific passwords: financial incentive (present vs absent), length instruction (long password vs no instruction) and stimulus (picture present vs not present). Mechanical Turk workers were asked to create a password in one of these conditions and the resulting passwords were evaluated based on character length, resistance to automated guessing attacks, and time taken to create the password. We found that users created longer passwords when asked to do so or when given a financial incentive and these longer passwords were harder to guess than passwords created with no instruction. Using a picture nudge to support password creation did not lead to passwords that were either longer or more resistant to attacks but did lead to account-specific passwords.
Author(s): Nicholson J, Vlachokyriakos V, Coventry L, Briggs P, Olivier P
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2018)
Year of Conference: 2018
Pages: 1-15
Online publication date: 04/07/2018
Acceptance date: 02/04/2018
ISSN: 1477-9358
Publisher: BCS Learning and Development Ltd.
URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.46
DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.46
