Scientists Develop New Method To Improve Passwords

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Scientists Develop New Method To Improve Passwords 104

Posted by timothy on Sunday April 03, 2011 @09:34AM 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."

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