MASCARA : Systematically Generating Memorable And Secure Passphrases
Avirup Mukherjee, Kousshik Murali, Shivam Kumar Jha, Niloy Ganguly, Rahul Chatterjee, Mainack Mondal · 2023
Passwords are the most common mechanism for authenticating users online. However, studies have shown that users find it difficult to create and manage secure passwords. To that end, passphrases are often recommended as a usable alternative to passwords, which would potentially be easy to remember and hard to guess. However, as we show, user-chosen passphrases fall short of being secure, while state-of-the-art machine-generated passphrases are difficult to remember.