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Rethinking Passwords: Our authentication system is lacking. Is improvement possible?

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There is an authentication plague upon the land. We have to claim and assert our identity repeatedly to a host of authentication trolls, each jealously guarding an Internet service of some sort. Each troll has specific rules for passwords, and the rules vary widely and incomprehensibly.

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    December 2012
    27 pages
    ISSN:1542-7730
    EISSN:1542-7749
    DOI:10.1145/2405116
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