PicKey AI - Secure your master password with a fun memory you love!
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PicKey’s AI uses your favorite picture along with a 3D character to create an exceptionally strong Master Password. You no longer need to type or remember any text passwords. PicKey, being a visual password manager blends absolute security with effortless usability.
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PicKey.ai
@rajat_gupta46 let me clarify.
The image you use as a master password for PicKey is given to AI world models that "understand" it, like human memory (semantic understanding).
So for example - you may take a picture of your dog form different angles, in different light conditions etc, yet your mind can simply see the dog and know that it is your dog. Similarly, PicKey creates a memory of the photo, and does not need the "exact" photo later to login.
It has automatic in-built tolerance for physical changes like view-angle, light changes, age etc. Similar to how humans remember.
So you can simply click a photo of your dog/car/watch or anything you love, and use it to signup to PicKey.
Later on, when you have to login, simply take another photo of the same thing, and PicKey will understand it again from it's memory that it made during signup.
Hope this clarifies your questions. I'd be happy to answer more questions id you have any.
-Cheers.
Interesting. I've never seen anyone use an image as a password before—I'm going to give it a try.
PicKey.ai
@adagao Thank you.
I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have.
DevQuizzes
Congrats on the launch and this is awesome!
PicKey.ai
@madzadev Thank you
I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have.
Having a patent is quite good, but I don't think I need a personal password. I need a commercial grade one to support this password system
IMAI Studio
have been using lastpass from a very long time am taking another chance with this lets see
PicKey.ai
@sammy_xf Thank you
Jinna.ai
Is it made for fun? An idea of storing password as photos while many other password managers «just work» (incl. Apple keychain, Chrome Password Manager etc) feels wild!
PicKey.ai
@nikitaeverywhere It is a cross platform, full feature password manager, made to be more secure, yet easy to use than all master-password based products on offer today.
For a typical master password based password manager (like Apple's keychain via iCloud and Chrome via google), you'd have just 94 combinations per position to create this master password (a-z, A-Z, 0-9, special chars). Whereas in an image, each pixel would have more than 4.2 billion combinations, making it's entropy practically infinite times larger.
PicKey is cross platform, and will work on both Apple (iOS, Mac) and Google (chrome)
MagicPass passwords are managed without being stored in any database, making them stronger than even encrypted passwords as there is no data to attack.
Even with higher security, the visual nature of PicKey's master key, makes it effortless to simply and see and remember, in comparison to a master password (like a 16 digit uppercase + lowercase + special + number string).
Sprinkling of fun :
To your main point on adding fun. We've found that most young adults do not have enough motivation to care for password management and the overall adoption is still very poor. This gamification elements, including the reward system is to encourage users to get into great password management practices (for example one can get PRO access for free for keeping strong passwords).
I'd be happy to answer any follow-up questions you may have.!
Jinna.ai
Is it made for fun? An idea of storing password as photos while many other password managers «just work» (incl. Apple keychain, Chrome Password Manager etc) feels wild!!
PicKey.ai
@nikitaeverywhere It is a cross platform, full feature password manager, made to be more secure, yet easy to use than all master-password based products on offer today.
For a typical master password based password manager (like Apple's keychain via iCloud and Chrome via google), you'd have just 94 combinations per position to create this master password (a-z, A-Z, 0-9, special chars). Whereas in an image, each pixel would have more than 4.2 billion combinations, making it's entropy practically infinite times larger.
PicKey is cross platform, and will work on both Apple (iOS, Mac) and Google (chrome)
MagicPass passwords are managed without being stored in any database, making them stronger than even encrypted passwords as there is no data to attack.
Even with higher security, the visual nature of PicKey's master key, makes it effortless to simply and see and remember, in comparison to a master password (like a 16 digit uppercase + lowercase + special + number string).
Sprinkling of fun :
To your main point on adding fun. We've found that most young adults do not have enough motivation to care for password management and the overall adoption is still very poor. This gamification elements, including the reward system is to encourage users to get into great password management practices (for example one can get PRO access for free for keeping strong passwords).
I'd be happy to answer any follow-up questions you may have.!
Jinna.ai
@gaurav_upadhyay1 my PoV: in the world where people invented so many different things to "easily" backup crypto wallets, I still back it up using 12-word seed phrases. This is the way I understand in full, and thus the most secure in my eyes.
I won't go with another password manager the same way if I don't understand how it works and encodes/encrypts my stuff with images in deep, and that the time I lose my digital "seed" image won't happen. By skimming through your landing/comment I still don't know how it works, so I'd recommend to work on that.
Good luck with the product! 🙌
PicKey.ai
@nikitaeverywhere Thank you.
a 12/24 seed phrase is great and probably one of the best practices out there. I am guessing that since you are security conscious, you may have an entirely offline, on-paper copy of the phrases.
In terms of absolute security, this is really one of the best approaches. Since you are an advanced user, that itself is a very good thing.
The only problem is that most internet users today are not super advanced and want some sort of usability features that give them a great starting point as a default. Password manager adoption is so poor, mainly due to the usability and cognitive load issues that these products have (a master password is a complex password, people do not remember it willingly).
Not only PicKey solves these big usability issues, our secure hint system, along with multiple photo-keys (logging with with your dog OR your watch into the same account) gives you easy ways for backup access to avoid losing the account.
We will add more tutorial videos around the product showcasing exactly how it works on various aspects. Thank you for your comments.
Jinna.ai
Oh now I see what you mean!
> Password manager adoption is so poor, mainly due to the usability and cognitive load issues that these products have (a master password is a complex password, people do not remember it willingly).
This is perhaps true for 1password (which I don't use), but not quite correct for Apple's keychain (simple on-device password or faceid), and Chrome password manager (simple Google Auth). So while these are still "master passwords", they are considered the only ones users need to remember actually. Users won't even be able to unlock their laptop or check gmail.
If you're solving the problem of specifically replacing that password from apple ID or Google, I'm questioning that making a "master image" instead of a "master password", from what I understood, simplifies the password management, which is, effectively, just a matter of 1 password.
The real problem IMO are uneducated users, that's definitely your point!
Congratulations on the launch! :)