Password / / Martin Paul Eve.
"Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Where does a password end and an identity begin? A person might be more than his chosen ten-character combination, but does a bank know that? Or an email provider? What's an 'id...
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| Superior document: | Object lessons : a book series about the hidden lives of ordinary things |
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| Place / Publishing House: | London, England : : Bloomsbury Academic,, 2020. London, England : : Bloomsbury Publishing,, 2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Object lessons.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (126 pages) :; illustrations, graphs. |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction: Passwords and their limits; Chapter 1 Who Goes There? : Militaries, Mortality and Passwords; Passwords, militaries and classical civilizations; Enigma: Complexity, calculation, making and breaking; Disclosure, militaries and the law; Chapter 2 Special Characters: Passwords in Literature and Religion; Passwords, myth and magic; Harry Potter and the two-factor authentication device; The Word; Chapter 3 P455w0rd5 and the Digital Era; Cryptographic hash functions; Fearful asymmetry; Biometrics; Chapter 4 Identity.