On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Doug McGarrett
On Tuesday 26 February 2008 18:51, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 6:46 PM, John Meyer
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. . . .
--doug
Not sure why, but that makes me think of using a private / public key to authenticate. I've seen that done where the user is asked to draw a bunch of squiggles. Those are used in the creation process of the key pair. Standard ssh type key-based login follows from there. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org