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The Zoom link for my SitePassword talk on Thursday.

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From: Jaclyn Kreibich <ja...@icsi.berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Subject: [ICSI Events] 3/20/25 Talk Announcement: SitePassword: A Hybrid Password Manager with Alan H. Karp.
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The Usable Security and Privacy Group at ICSI presents:

Title: SitePassword: A Hybrid Password Manager

Speaker: Alan H. Karp

Date: March 20, 2025

Time: 1:00 pm PST

Location: ICSI, 2150 Shattuck Ave, Suite 250, Berkeley, 94704

Join online at https://icsi.zoom.us/j/83941748204?pwd=UGabn1Vr2qeTQYSaDpZaqLkxd41E8Q.1

Abstract: Do you use a password manager? You should. How else are you going to have a different strong password for every site you log into. There are plenty to choose from. The problem is that they remember your passwords for you, which means you are dependent on them. What if yours goes out of business, as one with over 100,000 users recently did?

SitePassword is different. It doesn't remember your passwords; it calculates them. You can get your password as long as you can remember one strong password along with your user id and nickname for the site. That puts you in full control of your passwords.

In this talk I'll explain how SitePassword works and give a demo. I'll discuss some human factors considerations and include a few war stories describing some of the strange things websites do on their login pages. There are security issues relevant to all password managers, and I'll explain how SitePassword addresses them.

Bio: Alan Karp has a Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of Maryland and was an assistant professor of physics at Dartmouth College, where he learned he couldn't write a decent grant proposal if his academic career depended on it, which it did. He then went over to the dark side, doing 15 to life at IBM and more than 20 years at HP Labs. Alan worked in a variety of fields, including processor architecture as one of the designers of the Itanium, game theory, work that explained a non-intuitive Nash equilibrium, and distributed systems, where his research was turned into an HP product that was later described as "web services before there were web services." His last several years at HP were spent building systems that were made easier to use by adding security. To learn about his other work, search for Cash-Karp Runga Kutta, Karp-Markstein division, and the Karp-Flatt metric. After leaving HP he tried being retired but didn't like it, so he became Principled (not a typo) Architect at EARTH Computing, a startup bringing to market a new kind of datacenter network. When EARTH Computing folded, he decided to complete SitePassword, a different kind of password manager that started with a 2002 implementation. Alan received two IBM Technical Innovation Awards and is actually proud of a few of his 75+ patents.

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