Authentication: Something One Knows

Fun Class Activity:

Consider each of the following two passwords: "7B&3CK!h+=" and "123456".

  1. Which of these passwords is stronger?
  2. Which of these passwords will be easily remembered by a user?
  3. What trade-off is demonstrated here?
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