1 July 2014- by Dinei Florencio, Cormac Herley, and Paul C. van Oorschot- “Microsoft Research”
Password Portfolios and the Finite-Effort User: Sustainably Managing Large Numbers of Accounts. Microsoft researchers have published a paper, to be presented at the USENIX Security 2014 conference in San Diego from August 20-22nd, on optimal strategies for individual password management. The paper goes directly against conventional wisdom regarding the reuse of passwords, arguing that the reuse across multiple sites can be a successful individual strategy so long as those sites are of low importance.