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Quantifying the Security Advantage of Password Expiration Policies
Date: December 2015 Publication: Designs, Codes and Cryptography, Volume 77, Issue 2 Page(s): 401 - 408 Publisher: Springer Source 1: http://people.scs.carleton.ca/~paulv/papers/expiration-authorcopy.pdf Source 2: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10623-015-0071-9 - Subscription or payment required Abstract or Summary:
Many security policies force users to change passwords within fixed intervals, with the apparent justification that this improves overall security. However, the implied security benefit has never been explicitly quantified. In this note, we quantify the security advantage of a password expiration policy, finding that the optimal benefit is relatively minor at best, and questionable in light of overall costs. PasswordResearch.com Note: A video presentation on this paper is available here: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/default.aspx?id=250102 The associated slides are here: http://www.scs.carleton.ca/%7Epaulv/papers/Concordia-oct2015-talk.pdf
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