Unmasking the Security and Usability of Password Masking
Yuqi Hu, Suood Abdulaziz Al‐Roomi, Sena Şahin, Frank Li · 2024
Password masking, a practice where passwords are obscured during entry, is widely adopted for online authentication. However, its merits have been debated for over a decade, with questions about its security benefits and concerns about its usability impact. Yet to date, masking has received limited prior exploration.