<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> I propose to include my Internet account password creation scheme into the current account / password / keychain management systems on Ubuntu. Whenever you would like to do something very very important you probably will need a new password for subscribing to a mailing list, creating another online account and else. After some password you start to develop a scheme on how to easily create new passwords but it remains daunting. The password storage and retrieval is already done by Firefox, Thunderbird, Key Chain and Account Managers but the password creation is still left to the user who - as a matter of fact - only needs to memorize his master password. To fill the gap I have written a small command line utility in Guile Scheme which serves my needs. For those interested I attached the program. But I would like to see this feature incorporated into the existing solutions in the open source world. An excerpt from the source code: Human Typable Shared Secret (System Scheme) This implementation creates a human typable shared secret especially for protecting online accounts and it should be used in conjunction with keychains or password managers. It is defined to not use certain special characters which are known to be difficult to find if the keyboard layout in software doesn't match the actual inscriptions on the keys. It is designed to be usable with secondary backups. Its shared secrets have the property of being hard (but not impossible) to communicate by oral speech. They are also hard to memorize especially when you can look at them only for a short time. There might be other algorithms based on the knowledge of the syllable structure of common western (and perhaps other) languages that could produce secure /master passwords/ not be held within keychains and password managers. Please note the other password creation scheme mentioned: Apple's Mac OS X features such a tool (system settings -> accounts -> change password -> the little password helper panel). Maybe there are other ways to do this without blindly copying existing solutions. Secondary backup refers to the no no of paper backups. Comments welcome! </body> </html>