How to burn a password into your brain

  • 15 July 2014
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ME remember a 56-bit random password!!!!!!!!  This is interesting.
 
By Lisa Vaas on July 14, 2014
 
 
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"Enter Microsoft Research's Stuart Schechter and Princeton University's Joseph Bonneau, who on Friday presented an experiment they created to teach people to memorise very strong 56-bit random passwords through "spaced repetition" at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security.
It turns out that it can actually be surprisingly easy to burn a complex password into your brain.
With the researchers' process, which took an average of about 12 minutes per user, 94% of subjects were able to remember a 56-bit password or passphrase."
 
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Very interesting article Jasper! The Research can work for me too....as it saids here....It turns out that it can actually be surprisingly easy to burn a complex password into your brain.

I feel we are not very Password tech savy or are we? Who uses a password generator? 😉
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This all presupposes that one 'has a brain'...and if one does that the capacity one has is not better spent on retaining more important information.  I believe that Einstein did not bother with his address as he could look it up in a telephone directory if he needed to reference it or give it to someone else...LOL
 
I am with Einstein on this one...;)

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