MASCARA: Systematically Generating Memorable And Secure Passphrases. (arXiv:2303.09150v1 [cs.CR])

Passwords are the most common mechanism for authenticating users online.
However, studies have shown that users find it difficult to create and manage
secure passwords. To that end, passphrases are often recommended as a usable
alternative to passwords, which would potentially be easy to remember and hard
to guess. However, as we show, user-chosen passphrases fall short of being
secure, while state-of-the-art machine-generated passphrases are difficult to
remember. In this work, we aim to tackle the drawbacks of the systems …

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