Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

I completely agree. I have long passphrases.

The only way I can imagine remembering a duress passphrase is to make it slightly different in some way.

So that means I'd have to keep updating my duress passphrase alongside my regular passphrase.

Either way I love this idea and I might actually start using it. I'm just trying to figure out how to set a practical passphrase I will be able to remember. My passphrases generally are in muscle memory after having entered them for a few days.

Edit: A simple system I just came up with is to use one of the numbers in the passphrase and increment it by one to indicate each level of duress.




Interesting idea. I find that it's pretty hard to modify the end of a password though, I'm likely to press enter rather than add anything else. Probably a good idea to change the first character, so you have the rest of the password to remember that you're supposed to do that.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: