A Usability Study and Critique of Two Password Managers

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Guessing human-chosen secrets (2012, background): “conducted a usability study of these password managers in 2006 and found the majority of users were unable to use them as intended to generate strong passwords [67].”
"...No one Can Hack My Mind": Comparing Expert and Non-Expert Security Practices (2015, background): “Previous work has evaluated two different password managers and identified significant usability shortcomings [11].”
Insights into User Behavior in Dealing with Internet Attacks (2012, background): “In the following sections, we describe in more detail the security tests we conducted.”
The Tangled Web of Password Reuse (2014, background): “Here is an example policy: I. Passwords must not contain the user’s entire name/user ID.”
Graphical passwords: Learning from the first twelve years (2012, background): “However, implementations of password managers introduce their own usability issues [Chiasson et al. 2006] that can exacerbate security problems, and their centralized architecture introduces a single point of failure and is an attractive target: attacker access to the master password provides contro”