Towards Secure and Usable Leakage-Resilient Password Entry

• Main Author: YAN, Qiang
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: user authentication; password leakage; leakage-resilience password entry; mobile devices; cognitive analysis; Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/etd_coll/91; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1093&context=etd_coll
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Password leakage is one of the most common security threats for pervasive password based user authentication. The design of a secure and usable password entry against password leakage remains a challenge since twenty year ago when the first academic proposal attempted to address it. This dissertatio...