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Don't memorize passwords, Memorize an algorithm

The 1995 Turing Award winner, Manuel Blum, has come up with a clever way to remove the necessity to memorize cryptic passwords. The gist of his approach is that you no longer have to memorize cryptic passwords, you just need a matrix of letters/numbers, and then an algorithm for creating a password based on the name of the web site. All you need to memorize is your personal algorithm of navigating through the 6x6 square of letters and numbers.

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