Essay introduction

Introduction

The common belief is that passwords have become the weakest spot in modern security chain (Febrache, 2016). Several years of research concluded that passwords have essential security problems and may frustrate a considerable number of users (Bonneau et al., 2012). The aim of this essay is to review existing authentication techniques, evaluate their main differences and demonstrate the importance of password authentication in the near future.

Reference:

Febrache, D. (2016) ‘Passwords are broken – the future shape of biometrics’, Biometric Technology Today, 2016(3), pp. 5–7. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969476516300492 (Accessed: 27 October 2021).

Bonneau, J. et al. (2012) ‘The Quest to Replace Passwords: A Framework for Comparative Evaluation of Web Authentication Schemes’, in. 2012 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, CA, USA: IEEE. doi:10.1109/SP.2012.44.

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