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by jasonincanada 3263 days ago
I rolled my own solution a couple years ago: https://gridpass.io/

Your master password is remembered visually, instead of as an arbitrary string. My contention is that you're less likely to forget specific spots on distinct images than an arbitrary sequence of characters. The method has worked perfectly for me since I began using it, but only one other person I know uses it, and it has NOT been audited or scrutinized by an expert in the field. Nonetheless, check it out. It's free, being more of an idea than a technology. Besides, I can't charge you for something you've stored in your own visual cortex!

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I like this idea. Giving it a go, I found generating the passwords time consuming - as in sometimes I would be okay to get a simple 2 image throwaway password without having to go throuugh all 6 images. However I suspect that my impatience was just curiosity in wanting to find out how it worked, and what I would see whan I finished :-)

I also didn't feel much attachment to the image - which could be addressed and has got me more interested about. Memory palaces. Genius loci - ancient way of remembering things using space, places. This works in a similar way, images exist on 2D space - the genius loci work best when the mental image is something you know well, that you remember well.

Thanks for sparking some ideas in my head!