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  Scientists Develop New Method To Improve Passwords

  Posted: April 3rd, 2011, 3:34pm CEST by timothy

  Tags:  security  

  An anonymous reader writes "Scientists at Max-Planck-Institute for Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany have developed a novel method to improve password security. A strong long password is split in two parts. The first part is memorized by a human. The second part is stored as a CAPTCHA-like image of a chaotic lattice system."

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