Philosophical Survey of Passwords

TL;DR

This paper explores passwords through philosophy and cognitive science, analyzing their strengths and weaknesses, and proposes a new scheme leveraging human senses to improve authentication and user experience.

Contribution

It introduces a novel philosophical and cognitive perspective on passwords and proposes a sensory-based scheme to enhance security and usability.

Findings

Developed a quality metric for passwords

Identified weaknesses in current password practices

Proposed a sensory-based authentication scheme

Abstract

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.