24 May 2004
Password Memorability and Securability

Password selection has been a particular interest of mine for years: it never ceases to amaze me how many folks choose the names of children/pets/moms as their password, despite those being the most easily surmised by an attacker.

This fascinating little study debunks some of the "folk beliefs" about password selection, and confirms others. A good read, indeed.

Who would have thought that that something new could be said about how best to select passwords? Ross Andreson of Cambridge University and some of his colleages have performed new empirical studies and found some pretty non-intuitive results.

(link) [Slashdot]

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