• DocumentCode
    854557
  • Title

    Password Policy Purgatory

  • Author

    Farrell, Stephen

  • Author_Institution
    Trinity Coll. Dublin, Dublin
  • Volume
    12
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    84
  • Lastpage
    87
  • Abstract
    IT system users, (all of us), and administrators, (increasingly large numbers of us), must all manage some passwords. In this article, the author reviews some issues related to password policies and concludes that managing passwords, in any sensible manner, is becoming more and more of a nuisance for users, a factor that should be to the forefront when administrators are creating password policies.
  • Keywords
    authorisation; IT system users; information technology; password management; password policy; Access protocols; Authentication; Educational institutions; Organizing; Pins; Postal services; Privacy; Public key; Sockets; World Wide Web; authentication; password management; security;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Internet Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1089-7801
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MIC.2008.108
  • Filename
    4620098