Learning and Teaching for Mathematical Literacy

Supporting materials – 13F

Password Strength

xkcd.com

This famous (in IT circles) cartoon makes the argument for longer, memorable passphrases over the typical short password mangled to includer numbers and punctuation. It was the inspiration for the section on password strength in the book.

Links

Link to cartoon on XKCD

Password Strength (XKCD #936)

Cartoon illustrating the relative strength of common password choices

Cartoon © xkcd.com – available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License.

Supporting material for the book Learning and Teaching for Mathematical Literacy by Hugh Burkhardt, Daniel Pead and Kaye Stacey (ISBN 9781032301174).

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