At 12:31 PM +0100 12/15/02, Danny Van den Berghe wrote: ... > >I already formulated a good solution for this about one year ago. > >It consist of a formulaic response to a numeric code, which has to serve as >a second layer password protection. ...
Fascinating idea, Danny. I am personally bad-enough at math that any transmogrify-algorithm would have to be too simple to be much good, but I've been doing some reading on the subject. It seems that humans are relatively-bad at recalling alphanumeric strings (I sure am!) but are good at recognizing shapes. For example, we all have a mental catalog of dozens of *very* similar faces of people that we "know." (If you're like me, you don't recall the names, in many cases.) Maybe the thing to present to users would be ten random face-pictures, three of which they "know" appearing in random spots, in an image with random names? It would take more bandwidth, and (like all my ideas!) actually-programming-it would be a nightmare, and there'd probably be awful privacy-issues too if people don't want their images appearing on the web, but some variant of this but with shapes might be do-able. JMR --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
