Re: easier authentication?

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Vlad Stesin (rmiles@Generation.NET)
Wed, 14 Oct 1998 20:06:20 -0400 (EDT)

Since the pictures are in a grid, every cell can be identified with a
two-letter combination (ie: xy). So the user could have an option of
making his choice with the keyboard, not the mouse.

Regards, 

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On Wed, 14 Oct 1998 mgraffam@idsi.net wrote:

[snip]

> > But there's another problem which just occurred to me.
> > With a standard password/passphrase you can avoid showing it as it's
> > typed, but picking images would have a lousy (or great, depending on your
> > attitude) shoulder-surfing potential.
> 
> Yeah, this is a problem. A friend that is coding the GUI with me bounced
> that off of me. We don't plan on highlighting the points on the grid
> (well, we'll have an option allowing it, but by default it is off) so
> this will make shoulder-surfing a bit more difficult. By changing the
> mouse cursor to a thin cross hair and using a large number (and therefore
> small) of grid-blocks this should make it very difficult to pick up
> unless the attacker were literally hanging right on your shoulder.

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