Markus Jakobsson, a veteran security researcher with a Ph.d. in computer science, has come up with something he calls “fastwords.” Instead of inventing a gobbledygook password, you join three simple words that come from a thought known only to you. If one day you were driving to work and ran over a frog that ended up flat, you might choose “frog work flat.”
Some advantages: You can enter the three words in any order (“flat frog work”), and the system still knows that you’re you. If you totally blank, the fastword system will tell you one of the three words, which should enable you to remember the original thought and thus the three keywords. Jakobsson says one large service provider is evaluating the fastwords concept.
Fastwords represents a step in the right direction, but it’s not the promised land. Someone, somehow, needs to come up with something radically different—and radically better—than what we have today.
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