Technology and Practice of Passwords: 9th International Conference, PASSWORDS 2015, Cambridge, UK, December 7-9, 2015, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Book 9551)

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Passwords, PASSWORDS 2015, held in Cambridge, UK, in December 2015. The 6 revised full papers presented together with 3 revised short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on human factors, attacks, and cryptography. Front Matter....Pages I-XV Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Expert Password Management....Pages 3-20 Assessing the User Experience of Password Reset Policies in a University....Pages 21-38 Analyzing 4 Million Real-World Personal Knowledge Questions (Short Paper)....Pages 39-44 ITSME: Multi-modal and Unobtrusive Behavioural User Authentication for Smartphones....Pages 45-61 Front Matter....Pages 63-63 Verification Code Forwarding Attack (Short Paper)....Pages 65-71 What Lies Beneath? Analyzing Automated SSH Bruteforce Attacks....Pages 72-91 Front Matter....Pages 93-93 Catena Variants....Pages 95-119 On Password-Authenticated Key Exchange Security Modeling....Pages 120-143 Strengthening Public Key Authentication Against Key Theft (Short Paper)....Pages 144-150 Back Matter....Pages 151-151