Hi,

There is an edited book that covers many topics related to security and
usability that might have some useful information. Here is the title from
Amazon.

*Security and Usability: Designing Secure Systems that People Can
Use*<http://www.amazon.com/Security-Usability-Designing-Secure-Systems/dp/0596008279/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1218636293&sr=1-1>by
Lorrie Cranor and Simson Garfinkel
(*Paperback* - Aug 25, 2005) - *Illustrated*

Chauncey


On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Meredith Noble <
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> Hi folks,
>
> Does anyone know where I could find a list of best practices around
> login security? I'm looking for an overview of the most common
> techniques and how they relate to both security and user experience --
> pros and cons.
>
> For instance, I'd like information on:
>
> - CAPTCHAs
> - Site Keys (photographs uploaded by users and shown when they visit the
> site so they know they are on the genuine site and haven't been phished)
> - Enforcing strong passwords (vs. showing a password strength indicator
> but not enforcing it)
> - Hint questions and when they're useful vs. not useful (though the
> thread http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=31190 had a great discussion
> about this)
> - Emailing lost passwords to users
>
> My current client is trying to address some security issues but the
> particular approaches they've chosen seem somewhat flawed to me. It
> would be great to find a balanced analysis of the options and plus a
> list of recent innovations in this field.
>
> Thanks very much!
>
> Meredith
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