Encountering stronger password requirements: user attitudes and behaviors

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How Does Your Password Measure Up? The Effect of Strength Meters on Password Creation (2012, background): “However, strict policies can lead to user frustration [29], and users may fulfill requirements in ways that are simple and predictable [6].”
Of passwords and people: measuring the effect of password-composition policies (2011, methodology): “Our findings, however, are consistent with recent work [17], and show that a significant amount of the entropy of passwords is contributed by the portions of the passwords composed of numbers.”
Guessing human-chosen secrets (2012, methodology): “This can be used for research to compare password choices between two groups with insufficient data to construct full distributions [163, 169, 273, 168].”
The Science of Guessing: Analyzing an Anonymized Corpus of 70 Million Passwords (2012, background): “[22] which adds entropy from different elements of a password’s structure.”
A Study of Probabilistic Password Models (2014, background): “8 for other scenarios, because of space limitation.”