Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Music based authentication

I have fond memories of playing Resident Evil. In a couple of the RE games, you have to play a piano to unlock puzzles. Batman also has a piano password to enter the bat cave in Batman Begins.

A good password is usually long, random, and easy to remember. Often time, it’s easy to forget a long and complicated password, and easier to remember passwords are predictable and vulnerable to a variety of offline attacks. Musical phrases can be long, hard to replicate, and most importantly easy to remember. Playing a few keys or a musical phrase can be very secure, and it would be extremely difficult for an intruder to replicate with a brute force attack.

While this idea isn't 100% flushed out, I think it would be very fun, and prove useful to the would be vigilantes of Gotham City to keep their hideouts safe.


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