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"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: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London, England :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2020.
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| Series: | Object lessons.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction: Passwords and their limits; Chapter 1 Who Goes There?â#x80;#x99;: 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.
