One of the most popular passwords in 2016 was qwertyuiopthe string of horizontal letters from the top line of a keyboard. Even though most password meters suggest that it's weak, none offers advice on how to strengthen it. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Chicago have unveiled technology that offers real-time feedback and advice to help people create better passwords. To evaluate its performance, the team conducted an online study in which they asked more than 4,500 people to use it to create a password.
Instead of just having a meter say, Your password is bad, we thought it would be useful for the meter to say, Heres why its bad, and heres how you could do better, said study co-author Nicolas Christin, professor in engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University.
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