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password composition policy: a standalone construct

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Information security

rules about length and character types that passwords must meet, which affect both how guessable passwords are and how hard they are for users.

In information security, password composition policy refers to rules about length and character types that passwords must meet, which affect both how guessable passwords are and how hard they are for users. This meaning comes from Komanduri (2011) in Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.[1]

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References

  1. Komanduri, S., Shay, R., Kelley, P. G., Mazurek, M. L., Bauer, L., Christin, N., Cranor, L. F., & Egelman, S. (2011). Of passwords and people: measuring the effect of password-composition policies. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979321

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