A More Complicated PasswordCard!
Käännös: [ Google ]
Kategoriat: [ ATK ]
Angela Bartoli
To protect the password card from theft, there is one possibility. First, randomly generate and memorize a secret key composed of 12 numbers between 0 and 35 (one for each line of the card). Then for each letter of the mnemonic, shift this letter to the right (looping around the end of the line back to its beginning if needed) by the amount indicated by this line's secret key's digit before reading the symbol.
For an 8-symbol mnemonic, the entropy of this secret key is 41.4 bits, which gives a reasonnable amount of protection to the card even if it is stolen.
One obvious drawback is of course the strain it puts on the brain (although some may say it's good for the organ's health to work it out this way) and the time it takes to read one password. Another drawback is that the secret key is hard to remember, and if you forget it, you loose all your passwords.
Translating the secret key into letters and digits might make it easier to remember.
[ Postattu 18. elokuuta 2011 klo 17.24 | ei kommenttia | kestävä linkki ]
