Researchers at the University of Southern California claim to have found the perfect password by combining a series of random words to create a mini rhyming poem.
This technique bypasses the problem of passwords, which could either be secured but difficult to remember, or easy to remember but easy to hack. With a mini poem, it will be both easy to remember but difficult to hack, as a computer would have to run billions upon billions of variations before it got the right password, International Business Times reports.
The researchers, Marjan Ghazvininejad and Kevin Knight, have created a password generator to help the not-so- poetic people come up with a highly secure password.
Each word in the dictionary is assigned an exclusive code. The password generator creates a lengthy random number that is then broken down into grouped numbers translated to two short phrases, making sure that the final two phrases ends in a rhyme. The result is a mini poem constructed in iambic tetrameter, Tech Times reports.
Once a user picks a password from the list, the code is immediately deleted from the server.
The inspiration for the study was actually a cartoon, created by Randall Munroe of Xkcd, which showed how a password made up of four random words is far more secure and a lot easier for people to remember than the typical jumble of random letters, numbers and symbols that most people think of as a secure password, according to the Washington Post.
The study is published in a paper for the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute.
