How to Memorize a Random 60-Bit String [pdf]

Using generated iambic tetrameter to memorize long passwords. Also presented for a more general audience in:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/22/th...

See yesterday's discussion about that article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10439301

60 bits is only about 8 characters.

I've found that it's easy to memorize 20+ random character passwords if you use them everyday, and I've always had quite a poor memory.

The researchers report on their tests for memorability in section 3, and for the rhyming method use an FSA of 79 bits.

Notebook. Save your mind for more interesting things.

This seems so strange.. They seem to be going about it from the opposite direction (starting with bits) than I would go into it.

I think the simplest method (IMO) is to pick a dictionary of 100k common but not too common 3+ char words that have realistic memorable structures like adjective -> noun -> verb or adjective -> adjective -> noun or having probabilities that the bigrams are together in google bigrams being nonzero.

and let people veto the combinations a few times.