UPDF AI

A convenient method for securely managing passwords

Marc Walker,J. A. Halderman,Brent Waters,E. Felten

2005 · DOI: 10.1145/1060745.1060815
The Web Conference · 246 Citations

TLDR

This paper proposes a technique that uses a strengthened cryptographic hash function to compute secure passwords for arbitrarily many accounts while requiring the user to memorize only a single short password, and presents Password Multiplier, an implementation in the form of an extension to the Mozilla Firefox web browser.