Passwords - Introduction

Unfortunately there is a big dilemma dealing with passwords as described by Kaufman, Perlman and Speciner:

„Humans are incapable of securely storing high-quality cryptographic keys, and they have unacceptable speed and accuracy when performing such operations.”

In the following sections all aspects of choosing, retrieving or even compromising passwords will be discussed and summed up in ideas how to manage passwords better in all-day's life.

A simple way to test passwords on their own security is issued by the DSB Zürich:

https://passwortcheck.datenschutz.ch/check.php?lang=de