Let Charles Dickens sort out your passwords

• Autores: Jacob Aron
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3013, 2015, pág. 28
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, then people forgot their password and it totally went to pot. Thankfully, away of generating secure but memorable passwords based on the work of Charles Dickens--or indeed any large text--will make things far better. People are terrible at choosing passwords--"123456" and "password" are among the most used--so ideally they should randomly generate them. Something like "TH9H*kt7" is very secure because the mix of upper case. Lower case and special characters makes it just one of 72 quadrillion possible eight-character passwords, and hackers often start by guessing words.