Visual Passwords

The average Web user has passwords on 25 Web sites, however, they often have far fewer unique passwords. The visual passwords project explores how to reduce problems such as password forgetting, writing passwords down, reusing passwords, and failing to authenticate. Our goal is to make passwords easier to use and providing visual clues in the password itself for site authentication and to provide relevant prompts for the user.

Collaborators

Tanya Bragin
Katherine Everitt
James Fogarty
Tadayoshi Kohno

Publications

A Comprehensive Study of Frequency, Interference, and Training of Multiple Graphical Passwords A Comprehensive Study of Frequency, Interference, and Training of Multiple Graphical Passwords
Katherine Everitt, Tanya Bragin, James Fogarty and Tadayoshi Kohno
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2009. Full Paper (PDF)