@article{bonneau2015passwords,
author = {Bonneau, Joe and Herley, Cormac and Oorschot, Paul C. van and Stajano, Frank},
title = {Passwords and the Evolution of Imperfect Authentication},
year = {2015},
month = {June},
abstract = {Theory on passwords has lagged behind practice, where large providers use back-end smarts to survive with imperfect technology. Simplistic models of user and attacker behaviors have led the research community to emphasize the wrong threats. Authentication is a classification problem amenable to machine learning, with many signals in addition to the password available to largeWeb services. Passwords will continue as a useful signal for the foreseeable future, where the goal is not impregnable security but reducing harm at acceptable cost.},
publisher = {ACM - Association for Computing Machinery},
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/passwords-and-the-evolution-of-imperfect-authentication/},
journal = {Communications of ACM},
edition = {Communications of ACM},
}