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Record W3120772076 · doi:10.22215/etd/2015-11208

A Comparison of Password Authentication Between Children and Adults

2015· dissertation· en· W3120772076 on OpenAlexaffabout
Ahsan Imran

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicUser Authentication and Security Systems
Canadian institutionsCarleton University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPasswordCognitive passwordAuthentication (law)Computer sciencePassword policyPoint (geometry)PreferenceComputer securityPsychologyInternet privacyOne-time passwordMathematicsStatistics

Abstract

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According to a large MediaSmarts survey, 99 percent of Canadian children aged 8-15 are online.We already have a good number of security measures for adults but can those measures keep children secure as well?As a starting point, we explore the subject of user authentication for children.We conducted two studies on three graphical password schemes (Objects, Image and Words PassTiles), one with adults and one with children.We analyse the data collected from these 50 participants to compare their performance and preferences.Although outperformed by the adults, children performed best with Objects PassTiles where they recognized images of distinct objects from among decoys.Adults and children both have similar opinions, including a preference for graphical passwords over their existing password schemes.We conclude the thesis with four recommendations based on our experiences.Firstly, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor Sonia Chiasson for her continuous support, guidance and enthusiasm without which this thesis would not have been possible.Thank you for all the wisdom and knowledge that you have shared with me throughout the research.My sincere

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.015
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.058
Threshold uncertainty score0.116

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.015
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.002
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.025
GPT teacher head0.334
Teacher spread0.309 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2015
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