Proposal: Personal Data Encryption (maybe SoC?)

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Hello

On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 01:19 -0500, Joel Newkirk wrote:
> Tobias Gruetzmacher wrote:

...

> I'd like a good gestural interface for authentication - a passphrase or
> password would be a pain with a mini virtual keyboard, a pincode would
> remain a pain in many situations, a personalized fingertip doodle would
> be great.  Present a virtual keypad but allow a finger-drawn character
> or shape to authenticate.
> 
> j
> 

How about something like this?

http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~rachna/dejavu/

It uses images for "recognition-based, rather than recall-based
authentication."

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