Internet authentication for popular end-user transactions, such as online banking and e-
commerce, continues to be dominated by passwords entered through end-user PCs. Most …

The people who invented computer passwords obviously never met Charlie Fox. During my
high school years, I worked Saturdays and Summers at Hampton General Store, in the small …

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practice there is aN authentication plague upon the land. We have to claim and assert our …

Even with years of research into new authentication technologies, passwords still dominate
the authentication landscape. This is due primarily to a combination of security …

Keylogging and phishing attacks can extract user identity and sensitive account information
for unauthorized access to users' financial accounts. Most existing or proposed solutions are …

The majority of authentication systems use text passwords, as they provide a flexible method
of authenticating on a wide variety of devices. Unfortunately, having suffi-ciently strong …

We outline an end-to-end password authentication protocol for the web designed to be
stateless and as secure as possible given legacy limitations of the web browser and …

There is an authentication plague upon the land. We have to claim and assert our identity
repeatedly to a host of authentication trolls, each jealously guarding an Internet service of …

Password-based authentication is the dominant mechanism for verifying the identity of
computer users, even though it is well known that people frequently choose passwords that …

We report the results of the first large-scale empirical analysis of password implementations
deployed on the Internet. Our study included 150 websites which offer free user accounts for …