Author_Institution :
Minaret Systems, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Abstract :
The paper discusses a mechanism to aid users in the memorization of randomly generated nonsense passwords. The mechanism uses association and pictures and is based on techniques that have long been used as a means of memorizing information. The motivation for this work is the increased need to make passwords more difficult to guess and the necessity to keep them easy to remember. This mechanism makes an existing mechanism user-friendly, an area of computer security often ignored
Keywords :
authorisation; Rebus passwords; association; memorization; pictures; randomly generated nonsense passwords; Computer security; Concurrent computing; Dairy products; Information security; Joining processes; Protection; Tail; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Security Applications Conference, 1991. Proceedings., Seventh Annual
Conference_Location :
San Antonio, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2280-6
DOI :
10.1109/CSAC.1991.213000
