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CogSci-2021

Mukund Choudhary, Srivatsa K and Isan Upadhyay working under the supervision of  Dr. Priyanka Srivastava made a poster presentation on Is Convenient Secure? Exploring the impact of metacognitive beliefs in password selection at the proceedings of the 43rd annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society on 28 July. Their work was accepted as a poster presentation as well as a  proceedings publication at CogSci2021 and was the only one from IIITH. 

The research work started off as a course project at the Introduction to Psychology course in  Monsoon 2020, a pandemic semester which made it even more tricky to collaborate in and learn from, but the course structure provided for both. Research work as explained by the authors:

Recently, there has been research on what factors influence a user’s password setting practices, which include various types of emotions such as anger, risk-taking tendencies, etc. However, research has shown that factors such as memorability and perceived memorability have a greater influence on password choice. Some recent research has shown a negative correlation between the perceived memorability and the perceived security of passwords, particularly passphrases (that are technically more secure). However, it is unclear whether this effect can be extended to groups with good experiences with digital spaces (IT professionals, entrepreneurs, etc.). Furthermore, it has not been determined whether random, uncommonly-worded, or complex structure passphrases would also maintain the correlation, as opposed to relatively less secure, common/simple passphrases. This study examines this problem using a diverse demographic and different categories of passphrases. 

More details at: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7v1654s9 

 

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