2 papers
cs.CR2021
Don't forget your classics: Systematizing 45 years of Ancestry for Security API Usability Recommendations
Nikhil Patnaik, Andrew C. Dwyer, Joseph Hallett +1
Producing secure software is challenging. The poor usability of security APIs makes this even harder. Many recommendations have been proposed to support developers by improving the…
cs.CR2021
"Do this! Do that!, And nothing will happen" Do specifications lead to securely stored passwords?
Joseph Hallett, Nikhil Patnaik, Benjamin Shreeve +1
Does the act of writing a specification (how the code should behave) for a piece of security sensitive code lead to developers producing more secure code? We asked 138 developers t…