{"id":13283,"date":"2021-12-08T21:02:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T02:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/?page_id=13283"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:59:23","slug":"tr-08-20-multiple-password-interference-in-text-and-click-based-graphical-passwords","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/research\/scs-technical-reports\/technical-reports-2008\/tr-08-20-multiple-password-interference-in-text-and-click-based-graphical-passwords\/","title":{"rendered":"TR-08-20: Multiple Password Interference in Text and Click-Based Graphical Passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        TR-08-20: Multiple Password Interference in Text and Click-Based Graphical Passwords\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Carleton University<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/research\/scs-technical-reports\/technical-reports-2008\/\">Technical Report<\/a> TR-08-20<br>\nSeptember 25, 2008<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"multiple-password-interference-in-text-and-click-based-graphical-passwords\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Multiple Password Interference in Text and Click-Based Graphical Passwords<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"tr_t3\">\n<div class=\"tr_t3\">\n<div class=\"tr_t3\">\n<div class=\"tr_t3\">\n<div class=\"tr_t3\">\n<div class=\"tr_t3\">\n<div class=\"tr_t3\">\n<div class=\"tr_t3\">\n<p class=\"tr_t3\">Sonia Chiasson, Alain Forget, Elizabeth Stobert, P.C. van Oorschot, Robert Biddle<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Abstract<\/h3>\n<p>People have difficulty remembering multiple passwords. This results in reduced security as users reuse the same password for different systems or reveal other passwords as they try to log in. It can also lead to reduced privacy, as users may rely on centralized services to manage their passwords. In this paper, we report on a laboratory study comparing recall of multiple ordinary text passwords with recall of multiple click-based graphical passwords. We found that participants in the graphical password condition coped significantly better than those in the text password condition. In particular, they made fewer errors when recalling their passwords, did not resort to creating passwords directly related to account names, and did not use similar passwords across multiple accounts. We suggest that this is due to memory cues offered by graphical passwords which help users to recall their passwords without resorting to insecure coping strategies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/TR-08-20-Chiasson.pdf\">TR-08-20.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carleton University Technical Report TR-08-20 September 25, 2008 Multiple Password Interference in Text and Click-Based Graphical Passwords Sonia Chiasson, Alain Forget, Elizabeth Stobert, P.C. van Oorschot, Robert Biddle Abstract People have difficulty remembering multiple passwords. This results in reduced security as users reuse the same password for different systems or reveal other passwords as they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":12410,"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-13283","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13283","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=13283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13286,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13283\/revisions\/13286"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=13283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}