Greystash February Program Review
Team Failing Street Kyle DeFrancia – Spring Lead Erik Paulson – Fall Lead Joe Devlin - Webmaster
Team Failing Street Faculty Advisor: Dr. Crenshaw Industry Advisor: Dr. Hendrix of Galois, Inc.
A Human Problem Nobody uses secure passwords because it’s too hard. Human memories are short Special characters are not very memorable Humans like to use patterns, which are predictable Short passwords lead to brute force attacks Easy to remember passwords lead to dictionary attacks
Our Solution Make secure passwords easy to remember by generating them for your on the fly. cats4ever $gu_'e%1/]F[F'D]: 7 hours vs. 39 quadrillion years Estimate courtesy of: howsecureismypassword.net Cryptographic functions ensure randomized, unique passwords for every website
Milestones Alpha Release – 13 Jan 14 Usability Test – 17 Jan 14 New date: 8 Feb 14 Code Review #2 – 24 Jan 14 New Date: ~7 Mar 14 Beta Release – 13 Feb 14 Usability Test #2 – 17 Feb 14 New Date: TBA Final Release – 13 Mar 14
Additional Accomplishments User interface is completed Icons injected into password field to turn extension on and off
Additional Accomplishments
Website Interface for Mobile Generation of Passwords
Demonstration
User Testing Results 7 people showed up to take our test Impressive considering snowpocalypse Overall, people enjoyed concept behind Greystash Some issues People found the product difficult to understand Most suggested a tutorial at installation Users want to be able to see their generated passwords Too many “passwords”, consider changing the name
User Testing Results
Concerns Need to reschedule some events on our calendar Code Review #2 User Test #2 Changing the extension password needs to be implemented Structure is in place Will fill in from documentation
Conclusion What we are all about Progress to date Product demonstration Results of user testing Concerns going forward
Questions?