Do you ever worry about your passwords? Are your devices and accounts secure enough?

Even if your password seems to be strong, you are still susceptible to a hack. Companies are trying all sorts of methods for simplifying and securing our authentication processes: fingerprint scanning, eyeball scanning, and facial recognition, just to name a few.

Forget all that. What about swallowing a pill or getting a tattoo that will solve your password problem and keep you secure?

Regina Dugan, former DARPA director and current Senior Vice President of Advanced Technology Projects at Motorola, discussed these two identification solutions in the works at D11, All Things Digital Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, last week.

So, how can a tattoo keep you secure?
Dugan describes it as a kind of identification you can wear on your skin, possibly for a week at a time.
Despite challenges, Motorola has gotten together with MC10, a company that has made strides in the wearable electronics department to create an electronic tattoo equipped with antennae and sensors. MC10 will be working on a tattoo that can be used for authentication.

What about pills?
In this case, a person would swallow a pill that has a small chip inside of it. That chip would contain a switch that is powered by way of an “inside-out potato battery,” Dugan explained. Once the pill is swallowed, stomach acids power it on and off.
“This creates an 18-bit ECG-like signal in your body and essentially your entire body becomes your authentication token,” said Dugan.

The list contained 16,449 passwords converted into hashes using the MD5 cryptographic hash function. Security-conscious websites never store passwords in plaintext. Instead, they work only with these so-called one-way hashes

While Anderson’s 47-percent success rate is impressive, it’s miniscule when compared to what real crackers can do, as Anderson himself made clear.