Microsoft Research releases the Inkblot service

Microsoft Research has as a part of its backing of the OpenID standard released an experimental provider. It's basic idea is as follows:

You will be presented with a series of inkblot pics. Think of a description for each inkblot, then type the first and last letters of that description. For example, if the inkblot makes you think of "cloud" then enter "cd". Use a singular term, since it's hard to remember whether you were thinking of "car" or "cars".

Every time you type two characters, you'll advance to the next inkblot, until you have produced a quite difficult-to-guess password. Enter the two-letter descriptions again in the second box. Here, the inkblots appear in a different order, to encourage you to use the inkblots to build associations.

Whenever you are asked to log in, you will be presented with the inkblots to remind you of your associations. After a few logins, you'll no longer even need to look at them: you'll have memorized a strong, difficult to guess password.

Try it out on http://www.inkblotpassword.com !

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