I Think That I Shall Never See / A Password As Secure As ... Poetry?

October 25, 2015

Camila Domonoske -  npr

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Researchers at the University of Southern California have developed a system to create poems as secure passwords. 

Researchers at the University of Southern California have developed a system to create poems as secure passwords.

We all know "password" is no good, and "1234567" is asking for trouble.
But the more we try to strengthen our passwords, the harder we make them to remember.
It's a thoroughly modern problem — but researchers at the University of Southern California have found a very old solution. Instead of passwords, consider the passpoem:

The tiny villagers explore
a speaker company rapport

Turning random strings of characters into rhymed, metered verse was the brainchild of Kevin Knight, a senior research scientist at USC's Information Sciences Institute and a professor in their Computer Science Department, and Marjan Ghazvininejad, a Ph.D. student at the institute.
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