Password (disambiguation)

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The term password commonly refers to a secret used for authentication. In the past, the term usually referred to a pre-arranged spoken word or phrase.

Since the advent of the internet in the late 20th century, a password is typically a pre-arranged combination of specific keyboard characters, entered together with a user ID to gain access to a secure or members-only website.

Password may also refer to:

Television and games

• Password, an American game show

• Password Plus and Super Password and Million Dollar Password, its revivals
• Password home game, a word-association game manufactured by the Milton Bradley Company, based on the TV show

• Password (video games), a video game saving method

Music

• Password, a Nigerian record produer
• "Password," a 1964 song by Kitty Wells
• "Password," a song by Kylie Minogue from her 2001 CD single Your Disco Needs You

Books

• Passwords, a 2000 book by French philosopher Jean Baudrillard, published in French as Mots de passe

Other

• ESPRIT research project Password into X.509 technology.