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Scientists Develop New Method To Improve Passwords

Posted by timothy on from the start-thinking-of-random-things dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Scientists at Max-Planck-Institute for Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany have developed a novel method to improve password security. A strong long password is split in two parts. The first part is memorized by a human. The second part is stored as a CAPTCHA-like image of a chaotic lattice system."

2 of 104 comments (clear)

  1. Re:RTA? by pushing-robot · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's the one with the $5 wrench, right?

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  2. Re:Finally, some real innovation. by icebraining · · Score: 4, Informative

    But they fail to realize that the private key is nothing more than a lengthy password

    You don't quite understand how PKI works, do you?

    and is in fact more susceptible to being stolen than a human-entered password is.

    Uh, no, it's not, because a private key stays in one place - you computer - while the password is sent to each server, and you have to trust them to secure it properly. Which, as we have seen with Gawker, won't happen.

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