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Tobias Seitz
The Decoy Effect for Passwords - A First Exploration
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This paper reports on an online survey eliciting effects of a decoy choice architecture for passwords. The survey measured preference for a given set of passwords and was conducted as a pre-study to a more interactive online-study to give us a feeling about the constraints of decoy passwords. The survey revealed that in some scenarios it is possible to influence the preference for a target password by introducing an unfavorable decoy password. However, the preference for our target password was generally high, which leads us to believe that the choice architecture needs to be evolved further.