Published: June 22, 2014
Author(s)
Jennifer Romano Bergstrom (Fors Marsh Group), Stefan Frisch (University of South Florida), David Hawkins (Fors Marsh Group), Joy Hackenbracht (Fors Marsh Group), Kristen Greene (NIST), Mary Theofanos (NIST), Brian Griepentrog (Fors Marsh Group)
Conference
Name: 6th International Conference Cross-Cultural Design (CCD 2014)
Dates: 06/22/2014 - 06/27/2014
Location: Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Citation: Cross-Cultural Design: 6th International Conference, CCD 2014, Held as Part of HCI International 2014, vol. 8528, pp. 131-139
Institutions often require or recommend that their employees use secure, system-generated passwords. It is not clear how well linguistic and phonological language properties map onto complex, randomly-generated passwords. Passwords containing a mix of letters, numbers, and other symbol characters may or may not be similar to common patterns in spoken or written English. The Linguistic Phonological Difficulty (LPD) scoring rubric was created by considering the extent to which a string of characters in a password resembles ordinary spoken or written language patterns. LPD is a score calculated through a six-rule process that considers these spoken and written patterns of English as well as memory load. These rules can be applied to any password. Our research explores mapping linguistic and phonological language properties onto complex randomly generated passwords to assess behavioral performance.
Institutions often require or recommend that their employees use secure, system-generated passwords. It is not clear how well linguistic and phonological language properties map onto complex, randomly-generated passwords. Passwords containing a mix of letters, numbers, and other symbol characters...
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Institutions often require or recommend that their employees use secure, system-generated passwords. It is not clear how well linguistic and phonological language properties map onto complex, randomly-generated passwords. Passwords containing a mix of letters, numbers, and other symbol characters may or may not be similar to common patterns in spoken or written English. The Linguistic Phonological Difficulty (LPD) scoring rubric was created by considering the extent to which a string of characters in a password resembles ordinary spoken or written language patterns. LPD is a score calculated through a six-rule process that considers these spoken and written patterns of English as well as memory load. These rules can be applied to any password. Our research explores mapping linguistic and phonological language properties onto complex randomly generated passwords to assess behavioral performance.
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Keywords
passwords; memorability; linguistics; phonology
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