{"id":1428,"date":"2007-12-10T02:15:33","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T01:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/10\/create-secure-passwords-with-microsofts-inkblots\/"},"modified":"2007-12-10T02:16:13","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T01:16:13","slug":"create-secure-passwords-with-microsofts-inkblots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/10\/create-secure-passwords-with-microsofts-inkblots\/","title":{"rendered":"Create secure passwords with Microsoft&#8217;s InkBlots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/\">Microsoft Research<\/a> has just launched a new Web site called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inkblotpassword.com\/\">InkBlot<\/a>, which shows, a series of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rorschach_inkblot_test\">Rorschach Inkblots<\/a>\u00a0and helps users create a secure, personal password that is easy to remember. The user is presented with a sequence of random inkblots. Each should remind the user of a word, a butterfly or a pumpkin, for example. For each image, the user then types the first and last letters of the word that come to mind, such as &#8216;by&#8217; for butterfly or &#8216;pn&#8217; for pumpkin. InkblotPassword.com currently has 1,000 inkblots in its database.<\/p>\n<p>Passwords almost always suffer from one or more serious problems. Users have a difficult time remembering strong (high-entropy, hard to guess) passwords. Users handle this difficulty by recording their password somewhere insecure, by selecting a weak but memorable password, or by using the same password at multiple sites. You can also learn more about the principles behind inkblot passwords in this <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/research\/pubs\/view.aspx?type=Technical%20Report&amp;id=790\">Microsoft Research technical Report MSR-TR-2004-85<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.activewin.com\/awin\/comments.asp?HeadlineIndex=41887\">ActiveWin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Research has just launched a new Web site called InkBlot, which shows, a series of Rorschach Inkblots\u00a0and helps users create a secure, personal password that is easy to remember. The user is presented with a sequence of random inkblots. Each should remind the user of a word, a butterfly or a pumpkin, for example. For each image, the user<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/10\/create-secure-passwords-with-microsofts-inkblots\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Create secure passwords with Microsoft&#8217;s InkBlots&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}