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password cadence
From: matt.wilbur at gmail.com (Matt Wilbur)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:06:59 -0500
While it sounds like a good idea-- when I think of normal office-drone meat servos not being able to even start Outlook in 5 of 5 attempts, counting on them to actually enter their password with the same fingers, same cadence, etc.. more than once.. well. I'd be pretty amazed :-) What about for geeks? Like for sysadmins/security types/high security applications? I've been on some networks where passwd requirements get pretty silly-- things like 12char min, combo of 2ea (uppercase, lowercase, numbers, symbols) -- and the harder these get to create and remember (and type), the more problems there are. So I guess I'd be down on "something you know" and "the way you do something you know" as two factor auth. Biometrics aren't great but it is tough to screw up your own fingerprint etc etc. If it wasn't for pesky humans it'd be a great idear.. -matt On 1/19/10, james mattson <james.mattson at gmail.com> wrote:
You do have to type your new password in multiple times so it will learn your cadence. Ps don't cut my finger off for my banking info, I'm broke. On Jan 19, 2010 7:40 AM, "Chris Blazek" <chris.blazek at gmail.com> wrote: What would happen if the user changed their password? The program would have to relearn how you type it again. Depending on how often you change your password, that might be pretty tough to implement I would think. I would be afraid that would give people a reason not to change their password as frequently as they should be doing. A fingerprint scanner might be a better solution for a two factor authentication. Just my 2 cent. Chris On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com> wrote: > > Has anyone done, or he... -- http://www.kingbin.net/ _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
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