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A password, you mean?
by sam_lowry_ 7mo ago
A password, you mean?
- bandrami 7mo agoIn the broad sense of a shared secret, yes
- theshrike79 7mo agoMore like a Shibboleth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth
- eesmith 7mo agoThe text calls it a codeword: > The solution the world's leading experts have landed on is one your grandparents could have come up with: codewords. You, your family, business partners and anyone else you communicate with about important subjects need to come up with a secret phrase that no-one else knows you can use in an emergency to verify each other's identities. Think of it like a convoluted form of the multi-factor authentication we all use to login online. > "My wife and I have a codeword that we use if we ever get an unusual call," Farid says. "We haven't needed to use it yet, but sometimes I ask just to test her to make sure we don't forget it."