Carleton University - School of Computer Science Honours Project
Fall 2020
Portio Pass: A Password Sharing Application
Sarah Oloumi
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ABSTRACT
The combination of fragmentation in the video streaming market alongside constant price increases for these services has resulted in many video streaming service subscribers to share their subscriptions in order to keep their costs low. Many normal users already have poor coping strategies when it comes to password management, and password sharing only jeopardizes their password security even more. The purpose of this project is to design and develop a secure iOS password sharing application as a means of helping users to diminish the risk of having their accounts compromised. Portio Pass is inspired by Appleā€™s WiFi sharing system which allows Apple devices to share Wifi credentials without exposing the credentials to the recipient. The objective of this tool is to address the issue of unsafe password sharing by exploring the possibility of sharing encrypted credentials with a set of permissions controlled by the owner to the recipient.