Many people are talking about the
security-enhancing effect of 2-factor authentication, with two factors used
together in a ‘multi-layer’ deployment, as against a security-lowering
‘multi-entrance’ deployment.
We could suggest a very simple two factor
scheme that everyone can start right now at no cost– the first factor is a
password that you can remember (what we know) and the second is a memo/storage
on which a very long password is written/stored on (what we possess).
If you opt to store the second password on
a memory storage and use 'Copy & Paste' for feeding it in the password
field following typing your remembered password, you could easily manage a
combined password that can stand fierce brute force attacks as well as stealth
of the memory storage. This is what I myself do for dozens of accounts without
involving the so-called master-password which makes a single point of failure.
Further details are presented here –
“Improvised 2-factor authentication everyone can deploy right now at no cost
(updated)”
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