Systematization of password manageruse cases and design paradigms

J Simmons, O Diallo, S Oesch, S Ruoti - Proceedings of the 37th Annual …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Despite efforts to replace them, passwords remain the primary form of authentication on the
web. Password managers seek to address many of the problems with passwords by helping …

An Analysis of Modern Password Manager Security and Usage on Desktop and Mobile Devices

T Oesch - 2021 - trace.tennessee.edu
Security experts recommend password managers to help users generate, store, and enter
strong, unique passwords. Prior research confirms that managers do help users move …

Why do developers get password storage wrong? A qualitative usability study

A Naiakshina, A Danilova, C Tiefenau… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Passwords are still a mainstay of various security systems, as well as the cause of many
usability issues. For end-users, many of these issues have been studied extensively …

Are password management applications viable? An analysis of user training and reactions

MD Ciampa - Information Systems Education Journal, 2011 - isedj.org
Passwords have the distinction of being the most widely-used form of authentication--as well
as the most vulnerable. With the dramatic increase today in the number of accounts that …

Usability, security and trust in password managers: A quest for user-centric properties and features

S Chaudhary, T Schafeitel-Tähtinen, M Helenius… - Computer Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
A password manager stores and handles users' passwords from different services. This
relieves the users from constantly remembering and recalling many different login …

Why people (don't) use password managers effectively

S Pearman, SA Zhang, L Bauer, N Christin… - … Symposium on Usable …, 2019 - usenix.org
Security experts often recommend using password-management tools that both store
passwords and generate random passwords. However, research indicates that only a small …

[PDF][PDF] A Usability Study and Critique of Two Password Managers.

S Chiasson, PC van Oorschot, R Biddle - USENIX Security Symposium, 2006 - usenix.org
We present a usability study of two recent password manager proposals: PwdHash (Ross et
al., 2005) and Password Multiplier (Halderman et al., 2005). Both papers considered …

“It Basically Started Using Me:” An Observational Study of Password Manager Usage

S Oesch, S Ruoti, J Simmons, A Gautam - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
There is limited information regarding how users employ password managers in the wild
and why they use them in that manner. To address this knowledge gap, we conduct …

A comparative usability evaluation of traditional password managers

A Karole, N Saxena, N Christin - … Conference, Seoul, Korea, December 1-3 …, 2011 - Springer
Proposed in response to the growing number of passwords users have to memorize,
password managers allow to store one's credentials, either on a third-party server (online …

Password managers—it's all about trust and transparency

F Alodhyani, G Theodorakopoulos, P Reinecke - Future Internet, 2020 - mdpi.com
A password is considered to be the first line of defence in protecting online accounts, but
there are problems when people handle their own passwords, for example, password reuse …