Subject Librarian

The best part of my experience with the subject librarian was learning to use RefWorks. Where has RefWorks been all my life? I love reading cool articles about things, and now I know how I can store them online so I can access them later. It was also useful to know that there is a librarian who can give me direction in any aspect of research. My librarian was very willing to help.

For my literature review I am researching password security. Many people have very weak passwords that can be hacked in a short amount of time. I am researching methods people have proposed for creating stronger password policies to force users to create better passwords. I am also researching ways administrators can store passwords in a safer way to make password security greater without users changing a thing. There are a lot of interesting alternatives to traditional passwords that people have proposed, including graphical passwords, fingerprint authentication, smart card authentication, and iris authentication. As hacking techniques become more sophisticated, we will need to develop better tools to provide secure user authentication.