{"id":1292,"date":"2017-06-23T05:11:29","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T05:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wolfcatworkshop.com\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2018-08-01T02:54:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T02:54:38","slug":"a-podcast-on-crafting-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wolfcatworkshop.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/a-podcast-on-crafting-security\/","title":{"rendered":"a podcast on crafting security"},"content":{"rendered":"

This month I was a guest on episode #8 of the opposable thumbs podcast<\/a>. The podcast is hosted by Rob Ray<\/a> and Taylor Hokanson<\/a> and on each episode, the hosts and a guest tackle a creative challenge and then discuss the results, discoveries, problems, and solutions. I was very excited about it when I listened to the first episode so a made a gift<\/a> and sent it their way last April.<\/p>\n

This was my first podcast and it was a really nice experience. Rob and Taylor were super welcoming and very organized. They had an agenda and documents about what to expect as a guest, which was very helpful. And while recording the podcast we were able to exchange notes and pictures using slack<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I wanted to post a couple of pictures of the thing I made here but you should go listen to the episode<\/a> and look at the other projects<\/a> on the opposable thumbs website.<\/p>\n

Part of my inspiration was XKCD comic number 936 on Password Security<\/a>. My intention was to make a sort of analog password generator that looked good and was nice to handle. So I made a “flexi-cube” (I’m not sure if this is the technical name). This video tutorial<\/a> by pocket83 was very helpful, I mostly used it for inspiration but it really covers the basics if you want to make your own.<\/p>\n

Part of the fun was making a jig for cutting the poplar squares using the table saw sled:<\/p>\n

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cutting the grooves<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is a closeup of the Jig, I had to add a thumb-rest after cutting a few cubes because my thumb was getting sore:<\/p>\n

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After cutting the cubes I engraved the words using the laser on my converted 3D printer (an old solidoodle-2 with a 30 dollar 1\/2 a watt purple laser that I modified following this instructable<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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After engraving the cubes I assembled them using elastic hair bands. I made 3 different versions: the first one has only English words, the second one is bilingual (English and Spanish) and the third one has Japanese words written in Hiragana with their corresponding translation. I finished the poplar with olive oil to bring out the color.<\/p>\n

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English Version is shown flat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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English and Spanish version is shown as a cube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is, of course, a proof of concept, but the basic idea is that you would be able to generate simple 3 or 4-word memorable passwords by playing with it. There are a lot of possible combinations. Each version has 27 cubes with 2 words per face. That is a total of 324 words in the English language one and 162 words on the bilingual ones. It’s also just a fun toy. On the subject of passwords, don’t take my word for it, there is more to it and there are more sophisticated ways to generate them, do you research.<\/p>\n

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