%0 Journal Article
%T Philosophical Survey of Passwords
%A M Atif Qureshi
%A Arjumand Younus
%A Arslan Ahmed Khan
%J International Journal of Computer Science Issues
%D 2009
%I IJCSI Press
%X Over the years security experts in the field of Information Technology have had a tough time in making passwords secure. This paper studies and takes a careful look at this issue from the angle of philosophy and cognitive science. We have studied the process of passwords to rank its strengths and weaknesses in order to establish a quality metric for passwords. Finally we related the process to human senses which enables us to propose a constitutional scheme for the process of password. The basic proposition is to exploit relationship between human senses and password to ensure improvement in authentication while keeping it an enjoyable activity.
%K Context of password
%K password semantics
%K password cognition
%K constitution of password
%K knowledge-based authentication
%K IJCSI
%U http://www.ijcsi.org/papers/2-8-12.pdf