Cost-Effective Computer Security: Cognitive and Associative Passwords
Authors: John Podd, Julie Bunnell, Ron Henderson

Date: November 1996
Publication: Proceedings of the 6th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (OZCHI '96)
Page(s): 304 - 305
Source 1: http://csdl2.computer.org/comp/proceedings/ozchi/1996/7525/00/75250304.pdf
Source 2: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?tp=&arnumber=560026&isnumber=12214 - Subscription or payment required

Abstract or Summary:
Recall and guessing rates for conventional, cognitive and word association passwords were compared using 86 Massey University undergraduates. Respondents completed a questionnaire covering all three password types, returning two weeks later for a recall test. Each respondent also nominated a "significant other" (parent, partner, etc.) who tried to guess the respondent's answers. On average, cognitive items produced the highest recall rates (80%) but the guessing rate was also high (39.5%). Word associations produced low guessing rates (7%) but response words were poorly recalled (39%). Nevertheless, both cognitive items and word associations showed sufficient promise as password techniques to warrant further investigation.



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