Human-Generated and Machine-Generated Ratings of Password Strength: What Do Users Trust More?

Alqahtani, Saeed and Li, Shujun and Yuan, Haiyue and Rusconi, Patrice (2019) Human-Generated and Machine-Generated Ratings of Password Strength: What Do Users Trust More? EAI Endorsed Transactions on Security and Safety.

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Abstract

Proactive password checkers have been widely used to persuade users to select stronger passwords by
providing machine-generated strength ratings of passwords. If such ratings do not match human-generated
ratings of human users, there can be a loss of trust in PPCs. In order to study the effectiven

Item Type: Article
Date Deposited: 04 Mar 2026 12:58
Last Modified: 12 Apr 2026 00:46
URI: http://eprints.eai.eu/id/eprint/27377

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