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Does my password go up to eleven?
2013
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '13
Password meters tell users whether their passwords are "weak" or "strong." We performed a laboratory experiment to examine whether these meters influenced users' password selections when they were forced to change their real passwords, and when they were not told that their passwords were the subject of a study. We observed that the presence of meters yielded significantly stronger passwords. We performed a followup field experiment to test a different scenario: creating a password for an
doi:10.1145/2470654.2481329
dblp:conf/chi/EgelmanSMBH13
fatcat:ufbeiygmwnc5bjsbc7t3uqog2y