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May 05, 2005

Remember only one password and yet have every site's password be unique

This is really a brilliant idea. I am not sure I am up for it, particularly all the switching of existing ones but great idea. The concept is you remember only one truly secure password and then for each site just choose a really obvious string (like the url or whatever). By plugging both of these things into this Javascript app (running locally on your machine) you create a password which you then actually use on the site. This way, each site has a unique password but you only need to remember one password and the math is such there is no way to go back from the site password to the 'real' password.

It obviously does add a bit of hassle as you have to run the Javascript app every time you need to figure out a site's password but since in many cases the browser remembers the password for sites, this hopefully isn't such a big deal. And the obvious huge upside is that you neither have to remember a ton of passwords or use a single password which if someone finds out gives them access to your account on a ton of sites.

Posted by aarondf at May 5, 2005 04:55 PM

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