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 …

AnswerAuth: A bimodal behavioral biometric-based user authentication scheme for smartphones

A Buriro, B Crispo, M Conti - Journal of information security and …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present a behavioral biometric-based smartphone user authentication
mechanism, namely, AnswerAuth, which relies on the very common users' behavior …

Replication: No one can hack my mind revisiting a study on expert and {Non-Expert} security practices and advice

K Busse, J Schäfer, M Smith - … on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS …, 2019 - usenix.org
A 2015 study by Iulia Ion, Rob Reeder, and Sunny Consolvo examined the self-reported
security behavior of security experts and non-experts. They also analyzed what kind of …

Improving password memorability, while not inconveniencing the user

N Woods, M Siponen - International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 2019 - Elsevier
Passwords are the most frequently used authentication mechanism. However, due to
increased password numbers, there has been an increase in insecure password behaviors …

" I don't see why I would ever want to use it" Analyzing the Usability of Popular Smartphone Password Managers

S Seiler-Hwang, P Arias-Cabarcos, A Marín… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Passwords are an often unavoidable authentication mechanism, despite the availability of
additional alternative means. In the case of smartphones, usability problems are aggravated …

Encouraging password manager adoption by meeting adopter self-determination needs

N Alkaldi, K Renaud, L Mackenzie - 2019 - eprints.gla.ac.uk
Password managers are a potential solution to the password conundrum, but adoption is
paltry. We investigated the impact of a recommender application that harnessed the tenets of …

Killing the password and preserving privacy with device-centric and attribute-based authentication

K Papadamou, S Zannettou, B Chifor… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current authentication methods on the Web have serious weaknesses. First, services
heavily rely on the traditional password paradigm, which diminishes the end-users' security …

A Critical appraisal on Password based Authentication

AA Kaur, KK Mustafa - International Journal of Computer Network …, 2019 - mecs-press.org
There is no doubt that, even after the development of many other authentication schemes,
passwords remain one of the most popular means of authentication. A review in the field of …

Building and studying a password store that perfectly hides passwords from itself

M Shirvanian, N Saxena, S Jarecki… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We introduce a novel approach to password management, called SPHINX, which remains
secure even when the password manager itself has been compromised. In SPHINX, the …