Re: Speaking of long-ish passwords

Cri-Cri <cri@cri.cri.invalid> wrote:

A new idea to solve the problem with a secret (well, now not so secret)
code scheme, one that you don't have to keep hiding. Here we can hide it
in plain sight. :)
 
Go here, It's a Sudoku game:

Interesting idea.  One could even obtain a paper sudoku book and
"solve" a portion of the games, with one preselected one being "filled
in" for the key one is transporting.  Most "police" types are not
likely to look twice at a paper sudoku book, and certianly are not
going to "verify" that the partially solved puzzles are all correctly
solved.

And, if one was worried that some stazi type might "verify" the puzzles
for correctness, then just solve ~ 50% of the puzzles in the book
correctly, and choose one of those 'correct' puzzles to be the source
for the 'key'.

And key source can also be obsfucated somewhat, in that one could
combine the numbers in a pattern (zig-zag, circular, etc., i.e.,
anything other than left to right top to bottom).