"New Technique Makes Passwords 14M Percent Harder to Crack, Nonprofit Claims"

Security researchers at Tide, an Australia-based nonprofit, have developed a new approach to protecting usernames and passwords. The approach is said to make it significantly more difficult for hackers to crack passwords. The method, called splintering, breaks encrypted passwords into multiple small fragments and stores the fragments on a decentralized distributed network. According to the researchers, the use of this method would make it 14 million percent harder for attackers to use brute-force password guessing attacks, reverse engineering, and other techniques to reconstruct passwords. This article continues to discuss Tide's splintering approach to protecting passwords.

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