Master Passwords

To maintain privacy, each user must have a Master Password. If you think of ANTIfraud as a vault, the Master Password works like a virtual key to an individual vault.

Where two or more users share a computer, each user can have his or her own separate Digital ID™ Vault that is inaccessible to the other users.

In cases where there are multiple users on one computer, each user must have a separate account and a separate Master Password.

For details on setting up separate user accounts, please see: Multiple Users.

For details on setting up and using Master Passwords, please see: Creating Your Master Password.

Can Thieves crack your Master Password?

Here are the odds:

ANTIfraud encrypts your Master Password, so thieves would need to break it by brute force A brute force attack is an attempt to defeat a cryptographic scheme by trying all possibilities..  If you use a 10-character Master Password, there are eighty possibilities for each character (26 uppercase letters, 26 lowercase letters, 10 numbers and approximately 18 symbols.) That means there are approximately 1080 possible combinations.

Expressed numerically, there are

100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000. possible combinations.

It would take thieves eons to hack such a password, even with high-speed computers.