Scientists Release Working Prototype Of CAPTCHA-Based Password Assistant

An anonymous reader writes "Last year Slashdot ran a story on scientists from the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany developing a novel method to improve password security. A strong long password is split in two parts; the first part is memorized by a human, and the second part is stored as a CAPTCHA-like image of a chaotic lattice system. Today, after a year of work, the same group at Max Planck Institute released a working prototype online, where everybody can try this technology to encrypt files (Java plugin required)."

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Re:Requires self-signed applet with full privilege

[Anonymous Coward]

Plouf - we need these permissions in order to read the files :-)

As far as self-signed goes - we did not want to spend $500 on a chunk of bytes :-) Please trust us :-))

Konstantin