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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. aw man... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    cue loads of pr0n jokes... btw first post? no way... posting anomalously for obvious reasons