Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20070300076
Filing Date: June 22, 2006
Inventors: Whitfield Diffie, William A. Woods
Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Current U.S. Classification: 713, 713/184000
Abstract

A method for generating a word sequence for a passcode involves choosing a schema to guide the generation of the word sequence, and transforming the passcode into the word sequence using the schema, wherein the word sequence contains mnemonic structure.