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[The Magic Nose Goblin <magicnosegoblin65@xxxxxxxxx>]

Doug McGarrett wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 February 2008 18:51, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 6:46 PM, John Meyer <pueblonative@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> > > I'm wondering if anybody's working on a system to replace the
> > >  traditional username/password with something like a picture. (you pick
> > >  which one out of a table of pictures, for instance).
> > One of the keys to keeping passwords not breakable is to have a
> > massive number of possibilities.  Not sure how you do that with a
> > multiple choice solution.
> >
> > Greg
> > --
> > Greg Freemyer
>
> Well, if the picture was one you create yourself, with a million pixels or so,
> it might be fairly secure, so long as it was never published on the net.
> Digital cameras have wonderful possibilities.  Scrambling the image using
> some kind of standard encoding would make it almost impossible to
> recreate.  (Who would know that it was an image, or what kind of encoding
> was in use?)  Just an idea. . . .

How does that help when the "correct answer" is one of
the multiple-guess choices?

It's an invitation to having your system used by
an unauthorized user.


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