{"id":28,"date":"2009-05-28T17:17:58","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T00:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/?p=28"},"modified":"2009-08-11T07:58:19","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T14:58:19","slug":"how-to-keep-secure-passwords-in-your-pocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"How to keep secure passwords in your pocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security Focus has an interesting blog post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.securityfocus.com\/blogs\/1996\">writing down passwords<\/a>.  The recommendation is that you then select a four character common \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pin\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which you memorize. For each site you then select a complex completely random unique six character password and write it down on a paper in your wallet. The password for each site is generated by appending your memorized password to the password written in your wallet to create a secure ten character password.  The idea is that now you are using different passwords for each site but are not experiencing the extra cognitive load of memorizing a large number of long passwords. You are also not writing down complete passwords so someone stealing your wallet will not have your complete passwords.<\/p>\n<p>I think this is an interesting idea and would be interested in any known research on its effectiveness and usability in practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security Focus has an interesting blog post on writing down passwords. The recommendation is that you then select a four character common \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pin\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which you memorize. For each site you then select a complex completely random unique six character password and write it down on a paper in your wallet. The password for each site [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2u4LH-s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}