Electrical and Computer Engineering’s Andreas Sotirakopoulos, Ildar Muslukhov and Konstantin Beznosov, in collaboration with Microsoft Research and University of California Berkeley, recently published “Does My Password Go up to Eleven? The Impact of Password Meters on Password Selection.”
Password meters tell users whether their passwords are “weak” or “strong.” In a laboratory experiment, by forcing users to change their current passwords, they found that having meters did have users selecting stronger passwords. In a follow-up field experiment for unimportant accounts, the authors found that the meters did not change the outcome of the users’ passwords. For more information, click here.
