On Wednesday 27 February 2008 08:22, The Magic Nose Goblin wrote:
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).
That is yet another dumb, security-violation wy of doing things brought to you by those cretins at MickeyMousesoft.
Just say no to stupid ideas.
-- ARK
I responded to this once before, but I don't think I expressed the idea well. If you take a picture with a digital camera--say 5 megapixels--and put the image, even without any encyphering, on a camera card, and let a card-reader read the image for login purposes, you've got a code that's 5 million pixels-- however they are encoded--long. Let's see someone crack that! Anyone looking over your shoulder when you login would see a picture of your dog, or something, but he could never duplicate it, even if he photographed your monitor. And it would not have to appear on the monitor, just be entered as a login code. Of course, the card could be physically stolen, but so could the hard drive. And with conventional passwords, they can be tortured out of anyone. Nothing is fool proof. --doug Blessed are the peacemakers ... for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org