Tired of memorizing passwords? A Turing Award winner came up with this algorithmic trick.

The article discusses the human computable passwords being worked out by the Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor Manuel Blum, who won the Turing Award in 1995. Topics discussed include the use of an algorithm and private key for the creation and re-creation of unique passwords, the alternate letter and number provided by the algorithm in the name of the website, and the work needed for selecting and learning the key and algorithm.