Passwords: An Abridged and Discontinuous Cultural History

Queen Mary. 4th February 2016.

Password book

Dr. Martin Paul Eve, Birkbeck, University of London

Theseus and the Minotaur

Labyrinth

Gary McKinnon

Gary McKinnon

Passwords

Passwords

Militaries, Mortality, and Passwords

Fort
Image by Colin Smith under a CC BY-SA 2.0 license.

Transposition Ciphers: passwords as knowledge of practice

HELLO
THERE

HTEHLELROE

Rise of the Machines

Enigma
Image by Bob Lord under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license.

Password Cracking and Labour Time

Enigma
Image by Randall Monroe under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license.

Special Characters: Passwords in Literature

Yorick
Image copyright The Globe Theatre.

Open Sesame

Ali Baba
A remarkably white Ali Baba.

Harry Potter and the two-factor authentication device

Professor Snape

P455word5 and the Digital Era

Assymetrical

Cryptographic Hash Functions

"object lessons" -> "1d67a7d36f9be2e642bd3bd3fc14071a"

"495b3e607e3eaf05d987ac81ba6cd0d5" -> ????

Borrowed Biometric Bypass

Demolition Man

Minority Report

The Minority Report

The End

Thank you!

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