A plastic card for easy to remember strong passwords
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A plastic card for easy to remember strong passwords
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#3Every card ships with a letter showing the only unique copy of the card.
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#5This would let me keep a much more secure password for both.
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#6Or you could use something like (one of my side projects): https://www.wordentropy.org
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#7 sh(/J3HqAfQsu..u.rqf
Since the password came from Amazon, we know that the last 6 characters are "Amazon," which tells us that: . = A
u = M
r = Z
q = O
f = N
Now we can start attacking the codeword, which are the characters between the 8-character "space bar code" and the website name: AfQsu.
Using the letters we already know, we can determine that the codeword is: _N__MA
It's probably a dictionary word, and we know that the blank spaces don't correspond to any of the letters we already know. According to the following command: grep '^[^amzon]n[^amzon][^amzon]ma$'
...the only possible codeword is "engima," so now we know that: A = E
Q = G
s = I
Combine with another compromised password, and we're coming dangerously close to being able to generate a password for any arbitrary website.Edit: I agree with the replies that this is an unlikely attack considering how passwords are typically compromised. And it's probably better than how most people choose passwords. But the website claims that this generates "very strong passwords," which is nonsense.
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#8[0] https://www.passwordcard.org/en
I think I'd like PasswordCard because it's pretty freeform - just pick a starting point and a visual direction/pattern and copy letters from the card. But honestly I don't much like the idea of relying on a physical token if I don't need to. Almost losing my 2FA last year was a bit scary.
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#9That said, there's a certain amount of security through obscurity I guess.
Still, for any of the sites I really care about I use two factor authentication. I'd take a mediocre password and 2FA over a strong password (But happy to be proved wrong ;)
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#10This is a substitution cipher and it's not very secure. Consider what we can do if we compromise the Amazon password that's given as an example on the website: sh(/J3HqAfQsu..u.rqf Since the password came from Amazon, we know that the last 6 characters are "Amazon," which tells us that: . = A u = M r = Z q = O f = N Now we can start attacking the codeword, which are the characters between the 8-character "space bar c…
sh(/J3HqAfQsu.?u.??
We have only three characters to guess!OTOH this is only relevant for targeted attacks where the attacker has one password. This still protects you pretty well from bulk attacks (so long as the card is not widely used) and is miles better than re-used or poor passwords at little usability cost.