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Strong Passwords for Protection: A Contrarian View

By Nerino Petro

...interesting review of the major threats to account security with the authors finding the major threats are those that strong passwords alone can't defend against. Some of the paper is rather technical, but the underlying premise is that the major areas of concern are from phishing and keylogging which the strongest passwords in the world can't defend against. The end result, according to the authors, is that requiring strong passwords doesn't necessarily add protection beyond a certain length and only makes it more difficult for the end user to remember.

Full post as published by Compujurist on July 13, 2009 (boomark / email).