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Listing ID: 97
Title: Light Blue Touchpaper
Description: A Weblog written by Cambridge computer scientists. Topics related to computer security and recent developments in this field are discussed.
Category: Computers : Security
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listed on: March 31, 2008 09:28:41 PM
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Recent Posts:
| Passwords in the wild, part III: password standards for the Web - Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:54:46 +0000 |
| This is the third part in a series on password implementations at real websites, based on my paper at WEIS 2010 with Joseph Bonneau.In our analysis of 150 password deployments online, we observed a surprising diversity of implementation choices. Whilst sites can be ranked by the overall security of their password scheme, [...] |
| Passwords in the wild, part II: failures in the market - Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:15:02 +0000 |
| This is the second part in a series on password implementations at real websites, based on my paper at WEIS 2010 with Sören Preibusch.As we discussed yesterday, dubious practices abound within real sites’ password implementations. Password insecurity isn’t only due to random implementation mistakes, though. When we scored sites’ passwords implementations on a 10-point aggregate [...] |
| Passwords in the wild, part I: the gap between theory and implementation - Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:16:04 +0000 |
| Sören Preibusch and I have finalised our in-depth report on password practices in the wild, The password thicket: technical and market failures in human authentication on the web, presented in Boston last month for WEIS 2010. The motivation for our report was a lack of technical research into real password deployments. Passwords have been studied [...] |