When I first heard about Marco Barulli’s idea for a “Zero-Knowledge Web Application” I was happy. I felt I had found someone who thought the same way I do, with which we could collaborate, and I told him so. But when I read the first definition, I was less impressed. I tried to open a [...]
About a month ago, we posted some Thoughts on Biometric Passwords. Yesterday, Kim Cameron’s Identity Weblog unveiled how vulnerable fingerprints are… in photographs.
It hit me that in the age of digital photography, a properly motivated photographer could probably find fingerprints on all kinds of surfaces, and capture them as expertly as Dale did. I [...]
Multiple choice Pop Quiz:
Have you ever stumbled across your partner’s phone and read the text messages?
a. Yes, why wouldn’t I?
b. No, that’s a complete invasion of privacy!
c. I may have been tempted.
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Have you ever read your partner’s email?
a. Every day.
b. How would I? He keeps his passwords in a password manager so that not even the CIA
could [...]
We just discovered a great little game called Anti-Phishing Phil (thanks to this blogpost).
The game was created by CMU Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS). And it has done a pretty good job of turning internet security training into a game.
The game works like this: you are a fish named Phil who lives in the [...]
Wolfgang Schauble, Germany’s interior minister and adamant supporter of biometric authentication, seems to be waiting for the day when biometric technology will be available on a large scale and passwords will be a thing of the past.
But recently Chaos Computer Club, Europe’s largest hacker group caused a fuss when a recent issue of Die Datenschleudere [...]
Seems everyone has been talking about password meters lately. And word is spreading that a password like ‘thomas123’ just might not fit the bill anymore.
If you think – “No one cares about stealing a password from lil’ol me” – you’re right.
Passpack is built to make sure that not even we can read your passwords. But – how can that be? How does it work?
Folks are often frightened away by reading uninvited technical explanations. They underestimate themselves, hear cryptography and host-proof hosting and think – “oh no, that’s too hard! run – run!”
We have therefore introduced [...]
How good are different browsers at number crunching? That question is near and dear to our hearts here at Passpack. Below are the speeds for encrypting and decrypting Passpack data in the browser with AES-256 encryption (all libraries here).
Netscape performs as Firefox or Explorer, depending on the engine.
Mozilla 1.7 performs the same as Firefox.
Operating System: [...]
This is under-the-hood explanation of how the Autologin button works. The tool is only for Passpack users.
Updated on Aug. 1, 2007
Passpack Desktop 2.0 beta3 ready – http://bit.ly/8lkA4M
Just fixed a bug, the People and Messages tabs were freezing. Should work OK now. Thanks to users for the heads up!
Updating servers for the next 20 minutes. Service may be spotty or read only. If you can’t save changes, wait and try again later.
UPDATE: Complete. Thanks for your patience!
Passpack It! button tip: if you can’t train a site, double-click your button and use the Feedback tab. It’ll be queued for fixing.
Ok folks, as promised, it’s almost here. And, as always, we’re letting some lucky people get a sneak peek in exchange for running it through the wringer for us. Get on the tester’s list. Tester list is full, sorry.
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