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		<title>Is it a butterfly?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft has set up a]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Microsoft has set up a research website (http://www.inkblotpassword.com) that allows users to generate a password, based on a random series of inkblots that the user links to a keyword. The first and last letters of that word are entered by the user and so starts the base of their password.</p>
<p>The first thing you will notice on this site is that it uses another Microsoft research project asirra (http://research.microsoft.com/asirra/). On choosing your username and playing the &#8220;guess the animal right&#8221; game, you get to the generate password screen.</p>
<p>The Inkblots are stacked up in 2 rows allowing you to enter 2 different passwords based on the images. You can customise the number of images to show from 5 to 10, effectively limiting the password length between 10 and 20 characters in length.</p>
<p>The about page hints that this system can lead to highly randomised yet memorable passwords increasing security, Yet it&#39;s recommended you don&#39;t use your account for any important data.</p>
<p>In an effort to maximise the potential of this system it is run on a OpenID server and allows single sign-on usage using Open ID, across any website that supports the <br />Protocol. </p>
<p>Therefore, a different approach to password generation, can allow the user more chance to create visual relationships in order to remember their password.</p>
<p>It leaves me with two questions.<br />The first was originally a little fun, hence the blog title but then the second occurred to me.</p>
<p>1) How many passwords will contain the letters &#8220;by&#8221; (butterfly)? <img src='http://welshtroll.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> <br />2) And could all those butterlfies be a potential security risk? </p>
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