Ok, so what did we do at the Indiana State Fair? We built the passphrase-o-meter! What the heck is that? It's a machine that rates how good a passphrase you made.
What's a passphrase? It's like sliced bread, only MUCH better! You remember passwords, right? Easy-to-remember things like sn00k!14
Well a passphrase is like a password except that: 1) It's a phrase, several words. And 2) It's much easier to remember, while also being much more secure, than a password.
What's a good passphrase? Something like "We built a passphrase-o-meter at the fair!" Or "My dog, fluffles, has fleas!"
You see, those are easy to remember, but it's not likely that someone is going to guess what they are, either!
All hail the coming of the new kingdom of passphrases. Passwords are dead! Long live the passphrase!
(We wrote short article about passphrases recently that was included in IU's Living Well pages, and also got picked up by a couple of other places, including Science Daily and even John Tesh's site. Does this mean we're famous?)
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