For example, just requiring a user name foo and password bar, or user name foo, and the password is today's date, take day of month (such as the 16 in Oct 16), multiply by 2 and repeat twice, which is 3232?
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Pick a hard-to-guess password and just use that. Your web server probably has a method for providing password-protected access and it will almost certainly support as many users as you like.
Remember to think of passwords as simply a shared secret. Your complicated date arithmetic is also a shared secret, but it is fundamentally no more or less secure than a password. If you choose sensible passwords (i.e. not guessable, ideally random) then you don't need to muck around with convoluted schemes.
Cameron Skinner
2010-10-26 23:45:58
I agree the more complicated a protection scheme the more likely it has holes.
fuzzy lollipop
2010-10-27 00:04:34
is it apparent this question is not about choose a password?
動靜能量
2010-10-27 05:36:13
No, the question as stated is essentially 'which of these two password schemes should I use'. If that is not the intended question then the author might consider providing a little more detail.
Cameron Skinner
2010-10-27 09:47:18
hm... i thought the title says "What is a simple way to lock..." It really is about "How to lock" it, rather than "what password to lock it"
動靜能量
2010-10-28 02:57:21
Yes, but the body of the question is "which of these two password systems should I use". In any case, I mentioned that the web server probably provides password-protected access which is the simplest of all locking mechanisms. I stand by my answer that picking a good password is a simple, effective way to lock the content of a web page.
Cameron Skinner
2010-10-28 11:03:26