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Graphical passwords for Windows
How do you get users to make passwords that are simple enough to remember but complex enough that they
can't be guessed? One approach is to use pictures instead of letters, but how do you prevent someone from looking over
their shoulder and stealing their password? Some researchers at Rutgers have come up with a solution to the
"shoulder-surfing" problem. Their graphical passwords require users to choose in advance a set of
"pass-icons" and when they log in to identify three of them on the screen. Rather than clicking on the icons
themselves, though, the user has to click inside the triangle formed by the icons. Combined with multiple challenges,
the researchers claim it's secure. You can download a demo implementation of graphical passwords or check out
screenshots (click on Using the Simulation) at their site, or read more about the technique in The Rutgers Scholar.
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Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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idris said 2:21PM on 4-19-2006
how can i download the source code??
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eli said 10:33AM on 4-15-2009
I need many demoes of graphical password but http://clam.rutgers.edu/~lsobrado/graphicalpassword/
dosent work.please guid me about it.
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Chris Blair said 2:26PM on 1-19-2006
They lost me at "install .NET framework". They should have done this as an AJAX app.
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zztop said 7:13PM on 1-19-2006
sure looks like those "pass-icons" were lifted from http://interfacelift.com/icons-mac/sure looks like those "pass-icons" were lifted from http://interfacelift.com/icons-mac/
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