Are Passfaces More Usable Than Passwords? A Field Trial Investigation

By Sacha Brostoff, M. Sasse. 2000

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Subfields: Information Systems, Information Systems and Management, Human-Computer Interaction

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Differentially Private Password Frequency Lists (2016, neutral): “Passwords are the dominant method of authentication on the internet, and, despite many attempts to replace them [21], [8], [2], they are likely to remain entrenched as the dominant means of authentication [19].”
Password management strategies for online accounts (2006, background): “For instance, several researchers have suggested using graphical passwords, whether they use doodles [10], a series of random art images [7] or people’s faces [3], or points within an image [25].”
Is a picture really worth a thousand words? Exploring the feasibility of graphical authentication systems (2005, background): “Despite the growing interest in graphical authentication methods, their actual usability still needs to be proven, and initial results are discouraging (Brostoff and Sasse, 2000; Goldberg et al., 2002; De Angeli et al., 2002, 2003; Renaud and De Angeli, 2004).”
Authentication using graphical passwords: effects of tolerance and image choice (2005, methodology): “For example, Passfaces [27] worked as follows in Brostoff and Sasse’s empiricial study [10].”
Guessing human-chosen secrets (2012, background): “User studies suggest graphical schemes are more memorable [55], particularly when multiple secrets must be remembered [66], but can take longer to execute.”
A comparison of perceived and real shoulder-surfing risks between alphanumeric and graphical passwords (2006, background): “[34] M. A. Sasse, S. Brostoff, and D. Weirich, "Transforming the 'Weakest Link'--a Human/Computer Interaction Approach to Usable and Effective Security," BT Technology Journal, vol. 19, pp. 122-131, 2001.”
On User Choice in Graphical Password Schemes (2004, unknown): “scheme [ 3 , 24] and one of our own invention (to our knowledge) that we call the “Story” scheme.”
Security in the wild: user strategies for managing security as an everyday, practical problem (2004, background): “They have focused particularly on user-visible elements of security systems, such as passwords; the specific problems that they identify with passwords have also led to interesting design alternatives [8, 9].”
PassPoints: Design and longitudinal evaluation of a graphical password system (2005, background): “However, passwords are likely to remain dominant for some time because of drawbacks of reliability, security, or cost of other technologies (Brostoff and Sasse, 2000).”
Graphical passwords: a survey (2005, result): “Comparative studies conducted by Brostoff and Sasse [18] showed that Passfaces had only a third of the login failure rate of text-based passwords, despite having about a third the frequency of use.”
Design and evaluation of a shoulder-surfing resistant graphical password scheme (2006, background): “Indeed, image-based passwords have shown good memorability in user testing [2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 21].”