Password fatigue is the feeling experienced by manypeople who are required to remember an excessive number of passwords as part oftheir daily routine, such as to logon to a computer at work, undo a bicyclelock or conduct banking from an automated teller machine (ATM). The concept isalso known as password chaos or more broadly as identity chaos.

很多人都经历过“密码疲劳”，记住大量的密码已经成为人们日常生活的一部分，比如上班时的电脑登录密码，解车锁密码，ATM机操作密码等等。这还被称为“密码混乱”或者“ID混乱”。

The increasing prominence of information technologyand the Internet in employment, finance, recreation and other aspects ofpeople's lives, and the ensuing introduction of secure transaction technology,has led to people accumulating a proliferation of accounts and passwords.

信息科技和互联网在工作、金融、休闲娱乐和生活其他方面越来越重要，随之引入的安全交易技术使人们积攒了大量的账户和密码。

According to a 2002 survey of Britishonline-security consultant NTA Monitor, the typical intensive computer user has21 accounts that require a password.

根据英国网络安全公司NTA Monitor在2002年的一项调查，经常使用互联网的用户需要记住21个账户和密码。

Some factors causing password fatigue

引发“密码疲劳”的因素

unexpected demands that a user create a newpassword

要求创建一个新的密码

unexpected demands that a user create a newpassword that uses particular pattern of letters, digits, and specialcharacters

要求用户创建新密码时使用特定类型的字母、数字、和特殊符号

demand that the user type the new password twice

创建密码的时候，要求输入两次

frequent and unexpected demands for the user tore-enter their password throughout the day as they surf to different parts ofan intranet

用户浏览同一网站的不同区域时，经常要求用户重新输入密码

blind typing, both when responding to a passwordprompt and when setting a new password.

回应密码提示，以及设定新密码时，看不清自己输入的是什么，需要盲打。