Learn about innovative password security techniques in this Stanford seminar, exploring authentication methods, passphrase creation, and user-friendly approaches to enhance cybersecurity. Discover the Cue-Pin-Select algorithm, analyze brute-force and clear-text attack resistance, and examine empirical data on entropy and user experiments. Gain insights into semantic and syntactic biases in passphrase selection, compare various entropy models, and explore future directions in password research to improve both security and usability.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction.
Too many passwords.
Authentication methods.
Passwords vs Passphrases.
Constraints.
Example run.
Main Algorithm.
Bruteforcing Cue-Pin-Select.
Clear-text attacks.
Residual entropy (empirical on 10 000 tries).
User experiment.
Adaptability.
Current methods to make passphrase.
Passphrase choice experiment.
Protocol.
Choosing models.
Semantic bias.
Entropy Curves.
Entropy comparison.
Error comparison.
Syntactic bias.
Passphrase choice method.
Questions.
Future password research.
Taught by
Stanford Online
