-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Clayton wrote:
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 16:46 -0700, 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).
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The picture password is an idea that has been around for a very long time. There are variations from selecting several images in the
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Some link from the past few years... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1986713.stm http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/25/picture_this_imagebased_passwords/ http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci1000783,... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45p1Er4H8h0
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Of the references above the earliest is about 2002, IIRC I came across some research in the area in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and it was not new then. So the idea has been around a very long time... - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHxTNPasN0sSnLmgIRAuXwAJ9YqgzUe2JoNrL0xCEag8OI12pMKQCg9f8L 5ZjetNX58IigE2TxQ9rmoy0= =bgT1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org