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Password Cracking - Questionnaire

For my MSc project I am looking at Password Cracking

This project looks at the following things:

• How people generate passwords
• What makes a secure password
• What makes passwords memorable

For this project I am required to find out how people generate passwords.
To collect data I have created the following questionnaire and am asking people to fill it in.
I would be grateful if you could take a few minutes to fill it in.

As this deals with security and passwords, anonymity will be important to you.
For this reason no data which can identify you is collected and there is no way to connect any information you give about passwords to you as an individual.

Feel free to miss questions out if you do not wish to answer them.

1. How long are your passwords usually? Please Select 1 characters 2 characters 3 characters 4 characters 5 characters 6 characters 7 characters 8 characters 9 characters 10 characters 11 characters 12 characters 13 characters 14 characters 15+ characters

2. Which of the following do you use as a basis for your passwords? Random word A Name (Yours, Family member, Place, etc.) Number plate First letters from a phrase Phone Number Random string of letters/numbers/characters Other:

3. Which of the following do you use to make up your passwords? Nothing, just use the word eg: cat Add a number/symbol to the end eg: cat1 Add a number/symbol to the beginning eg: @cat Repeat a word eg: catcat Mirror a word eg: cattac Reverse a word eg: tac Capitalise letters eg: caT Change letters for numbers eg: c8t Change letters for symbols eg: ca] Insert numbers eg: c5at Insert symbols eg: ca%t Use leet speak eg: c/-\t Other:

4. If you change letters for characters or numbers. Which letters would you change and what characters would you change them to? a: b: c: d: e: f: g: h: i: j: k: l: m: n: o: p: q: r: s: t: u: v: w: x: y: z:

5. How do you remember your passwords? It's a simple password It's a short password It's a hard password but I still manage to remember it Write it down Use the same password in different places so only need to remember one It's been the same for a long time Other:

6. Are there any other ways you have for creating passwords, or any other comments?

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