"Cryptographic" password hint
It is often necessary to log in to a website on someone else’s computer, and remembering tens and hundreds of passwords of the form Wj7mH & h $ 0l is pure madness or the path to it.
A flash drive with a password keeper is not an option, because I do not trust other people's computers, especially such information. A sheet with recorded passwords can be lost or it is snooped along with a wallet ... I solved this question for myself by creating a small “cryptographic hint” that allows you to record a password of any complexity and hide it from outsiders.
The hint consists of two tables of 10x10 characters. For example:
In the left alphabet in order and basic signs, you can enter the Cyrillic alphabet (depending on your preferences). In the right set of Latin letters in different registers, numbers and signs in a random order.
In the left table we store the login or the name of the site, in the right - the password.
For example, to memorize a password in Habré, it’s enough for me to remember only the password, respectively, in the left I look for the letters habrahabr and in the right they correspond to $ \> 4 \ $ \> 4 .
You can use the first capital letter as the first one to expand the variation or the user name instead of the name. The main thing is to decide once how you will do it, so as not to get confused.
Such a piece of paper is not terrible to lose, in terms of security, and the need to remember complex passwords is no longer necessary.
Disadvantage: at first it’s not very fast to reproduce the password, but over time you see passwords on the fly. The second drawback of changing one password will lead to the need to change passwords on all other sites, which, in principle, it is useful to do periodically.
If you like this idea, then carefully consider the choice of the font, since the characters are zero, letter o, lowercase l, uppercase I, etc. should be well distinguishable.
A flash drive with a password keeper is not an option, because I do not trust other people's computers, especially such information. A sheet with recorded passwords can be lost or it is snooped along with a wallet ... I solved this question for myself by creating a small “cryptographic hint” that allows you to record a password of any complexity and hide it from outsiders.
The hint consists of two tables of 10x10 characters. For example:
In the left alphabet in order and basic signs, you can enter the Cyrillic alphabet (depending on your preferences). In the right set of Latin letters in different registers, numbers and signs in a random order.
In the left table we store the login or the name of the site, in the right - the password.
For example, to memorize a password in Habré, it’s enough for me to remember only the password, respectively, in the left I look for the letters habrahabr and in the right they correspond to $ \> 4 \ $ \> 4 .
You can use the first capital letter as the first one to expand the variation or the user name instead of the name. The main thing is to decide once how you will do it, so as not to get confused.
Such a piece of paper is not terrible to lose, in terms of security, and the need to remember complex passwords is no longer necessary.
Disadvantage: at first it’s not very fast to reproduce the password, but over time you see passwords on the fly. The second drawback of changing one password will lead to the need to change passwords on all other sites, which, in principle, it is useful to do periodically.
If you like this idea, then carefully consider the choice of the font, since the characters are zero, letter o, lowercase l, uppercase I, etc. should be well distinguishable.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/58688/
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