{"id":13217,"date":"2021-12-07T20:55:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T01:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/?page_id=13217"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:59:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:59:24","slug":"tr-07-16-influencing-users-towards-better-passwords-persuasive-cued-click-points","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/research\/scs-technical-reports\/technical-reports-2007\/tr-07-16-influencing-users-towards-better-passwords-persuasive-cued-click-points\/","title":{"rendered":"TR-07-16: Influencing Users Towards Better Passwords: Persuasive Cued Click-Points"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Carleton University
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Influencing Users Towards Better Passwords: Persuasive Cued Click-Points<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Sonia Chiasson, Alain Forget, Robert Biddle, P.C. van Oorschot<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Usable security has unique usability challenges because the need for security often means that standard human-computer-interaction approaches cannot be directly applied. An important usability goal for authentication systems is to support users in selecting better passwords, thus increasing security by expanding the effective password space. In click-based graphical passwords, poorly chosen passwords lead to the emergence of hotspots – portions of the image where users are more likely to select click-points, allowing attackers to mount more successful dictionary attacks. We use persuasion to influence user choice in click-based graphical passwords, encouraging users to select more random, and hence more secure, click-points. Our approach is to introduce persuasion to the Cued Click-Points graphical password scheme of Chiasson et al. (ESORICS 2007). Our resulting scheme significantly reduces hotspots while still maintaining its usability.<\/p>\n

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Carleton University Technical Report TR-07-16 September 27, 2007 Influencing Users Towards Better Passwords: Persuasive Cued Click-Points Sonia Chiasson, Alain Forget, Robert Biddle, P.C. van Oorschot Abstract Usable security has unique usability challenges because the need for security often means that standard human-computer-interaction approaches cannot be directly applied. An important usability goal for authentication systems is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":12385,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-13217","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13218,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13217\/revisions\/13218"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=13217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}