Managing Multiple Passwords and Multiple Logins: MiFA

Internet users today who subscribe to many different accounts or subscriptions online face a bewildering array of logins and passwords to remember on security systems where usability design was often an afterthought [1,2,3,8,12,14]. The same dilemma faces users who must log into multiple networks during the workday. In this paper we describe our conceptual system for Minimal-Feedback Hints for Remote Authentication (MiFA), which we hope will help alleviate this problem. In addition, we hope MiFA will improve the tenuous security currently on the web by improving the way users work with authentication systems. Keywords Security, passwords, logins, remote authentication, authentication, word association, minimal feedback.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: INTERACT
• Authors: Bo Lu, Michael Twidale
• Keywords: Dilemma Faces Users, INTERACT 2003, INTERACT 2007, Internet Users, Remote Authentication