[LUG.ro Mix] Philosophical Survey of Passwords

[Horacio Castellini]

Over the years security experts in the field of Information Technology
have had a tough time in making passwords secure. This paper studies and
takes a careful look at this issue from the angle of philosophy and
cognitive science. We have studied the process of passwords to rank its
strengths and weaknesses in order to establish a quality metric for
passwords. Finally we related the process to human senses which enables
us to propose a constitutional scheme for the process of password. The
basic proposition is to exploit relationship between human senses and
password to ensure improvement in authentication while keeping it an
enjoyable activity.



http://arxiv.org/pdf/0909.2367v1