Putting Your Passwords on Self Destruct Mode

In this paper, we explore the challenge of Password Fatigue, which is essentially the difficulty involved with having too many passwords to remember and manage. The systemic failure to recognize the problem in the context of people's time and attention results in numerous security exposures due to bad habits and inappropriate shortcuts. To address this issue, we examine the concept of ephemeral content and discuss how it relates to password management and password fatigue. We introduce an authentication scheme based on ephemeral passwords, which utilizes a system called Synthetic Aperture Multimodal Biometric Authentication (SAMBA). The system relies on analyzing data from low-cost biometric sensors and, because of advances in machine learning techniques, we believe that the time is ripe for the development of ephemeral passwords.