Carleton University
Technical Report TR-11-03
February 22, 2011
Persuasive Cued Click-Points: Design, implementation, and evaluation of a knowledge-based authentication mechanism
S. Chiasson, E. Stobert, A. Forget, P. van Oorschot
Abstract
This paper introduces and presents the results of a systemic study of the Persuasive Cued Click-Points graphical password scheme, including usability and security evaluations, and implementation considerations. An important usability goal for knowledge-based authentication systems is to support users in selecting better passwords, thus increasing security by expanding the effective password space. We use persuasion to influence user choice in click-based graphical passwords, encouraging users to select more random, and hence more difficult to guess, click-points.