Rethinking Password Policies
Authors: Abe Singer, Warren Anderson

Date: August 2013
Publication: USENIX ;login:, Volume 38, Number 4
Page(s): 14 - 18
Publisher: USENIX
Source 1: https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/rethinking_password_policies_unabridged.pdf
Source 2: https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/rethinking_password_policies_revised_8-2-13.pdf

Abstract or Summary:
We are all familiar with having "rules" for passwords: they must have characters from various character sets, have a minimum length, get changed regularly, not be written down, etc. These rules are supposed to make passwords "secure," but there’s little to no research to support that argument. In fact, they can even weaken security. We argue that it’s time for a radical change of password policy.



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