Password
"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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London, England :
Bloomsbury Academic
2020.
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| Series: | Object lessons.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009684818006719 |
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.
