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Let Your Theme Song be Your Password

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the just-pick-something-so-horrible-no-one-will-want-to-use-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The latest proposed solution to the fact humans suck at using passwords properly is to let people use digital objects, like mp3s, photos or videos instead. A file is hashed into a unique, secure string that acts as the real password. A paper on the idea was put forward in a recent Usenix conference on hot topics in security, and a Firefox extension that implements the idea is available too."

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  1. Stupid and Redundant by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you can use an MP3 as a "password" you may as well just go the whole nine yards and use a damn key file.
    This is stupid and redundant.

  2. Howto create good password thats easy remembered by abecede · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Think about one of your favourite songs, poems (e.g. "Hey Jude" by The Beatles)
    Now take the first letters of the refrain or the first verse (e.g. "Hey Jude, don't make it bad") and you get "HJdmib"
    If you like, translate it a little bit into "l33t speak": HJdm1b
    And you have a great password that you can remember easily.

    EDUCATE your users!