Using a Password One Doesn't Consciously Remember

ZiggyM writes "Researchers from Hebrew University in Israel have devised a way to assign a password to a user in a way that prevents the user from conciously remember or describe it, yet the user can input it correctly over 90% of the time in a 3 month period after [s]he learns to input it. It involves using visual recognition of previously-seen images, which you can recognize but cant consciously recall in detail. Recognizing the right ones from a series is interpreted as knowing the password, and the chances of guessing it is 1/100,000. Not ready for practical use yet, but very interesting concept that can develop further."

Comments

I never can remember my password

[lecithin]

My current 'standard' password is 10 characters, upper/lower cased with number/special characters. I have no clue what it is. Put me in front of a keyboard, I can type it out without fail each and every time.

Johnny Mnemonic

[Krondor]

Isn't this similar to how passwords were handled in Johnny Mnemonic? With the 3 random screen captures. I realize that this is different in that the user remembers which ones to pick, but isn't it the same principle?

Sci-Fi becomes reality once again.