Pictorial Passwords 331
Stone Rhino writes: "No longer do you need to remember passwords. Now, thanks to graduate students at Berkeley you merely need to pick out the right pieces of abstract art. There is a story on it at the New York Times. However, there is a problem with it that I see: 5 images from a set of 25 means 53,130 potential combinations. This would be much easier to crack by brute force than a standard alphanumeric password with its billions of possibilities and millions of likely choices." Maybe you have to get the sequence of images correct? If so there are some six million combinations, still weaker than a optimum password but probably stronger than the passwords most people choose (usually their significant other's name). There's another article on passwords in that same NYT edition.
Uncrackable Password (Score:0, Funny)
Images? (Score:3, Funny)
implications.. (Score:5, Funny)
> their significant other's name)
So does this mean that the harder a person's password is to crack, the less likely they are to have a sex life?
From a Tech Support view (Score:5, Funny)
I wouldn't know where to begin trying to describe what pictures to use for their password... "Ok, now choose the picture that looks like a moose being sucked into a vortex".
Re:implications.. (Score:2, Funny)
Reg. Bypassed URLs for those articles: (Score:5, Funny)
Second Link: http://college.nytimes.com/2001/12/27/technology/
Re:login required (Score:3, Funny)
Then all the better reason to be interested in an article about easy-to-remeber passwords. :)
Re:implications.. (Score:-1, Funny)
My Favorite Quote On The Second NYT Article: (Score:5, Funny)
Even high-ranking executives? Make that especially.
Try telling this one to a friend (Score:5, Funny)
"No Bill, it's Black Guy, Asian Guy, Samoan Woman, Black Guy with the scar, White Guy with glasses! Hurry up before the Holodeck explodes!"
Re:implications.. (Score:2, Funny)
>password is to crack, the less likely they are
>to have a sex life?
Not if their significant other is known as "PC"
Re:Try telling this one to a friend (Score:5, Funny)
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Mod me down, I'm way off-topic.
Re:Similar to Passface (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Jeebus! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Images? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Jeebus! (Score:3, Funny)
"...Because of the complexity of the password selection rules, there is actually only one password which passes all the tests. To make the selection of this password simpler for the user, it will be distributed to all supervisors. All users are instructed to obtain this password from his or her supervisor and begin using it immediately."