Some people shout that the password is dead or should be killed dead. The password could be killed, however, only when there is an alternative to the password. Something belonging to the password（PIN, passphrase, etc）and something dependent on the password (ID federations, 2/multi-factor, etc) cannot be the alternative to the password. Neither can be something that has to be used together with the password (biometrics, auto-login, etc).　 It is too obvious, anyway, that the conventional alphanumeric password alone can no longer sustain the demand and we urgently need a successor to it, which should be found from among the broader family of the passwords and the likes.