You are in the: Small Business Computing Channel

» ECommerce-Guide | Small Business Computing | Webopedia | WinPlanet

www.ecommerce-guide.com/solutions/building/article.php/124851

Back to Article

Toss Out Your Passwords - Bring On Passfaces(TM) Instead! By Mark Merkow, CCP, CISSP April 1, 1999 The Benefits of Passfaces Users will continue to recognize their Passfaces even after long periods of non-use, thereby reducing or eliminating password reset requests to your help desk. Passfaces can''t be written down nor shared with other people. Challenges always appear in random order, reducing the possibility that someone looking over your shoulder could ''learn'' your chosen set of Passfaces. Passfaces are more of a ''friendly'' way to implement security measures. Passfaces require no new hardware and only minimal changes to existing authentication engines. A Sample Session With Passfaces Let''s now take a look at how Passfaces operate using the contest entry form on the ID Arts Web site. A complete demonstration, including enrollment and logging-in is also available at ID Arts at www.id-arts.com/product/try.htm. Figure 1 below shows the three Passfaces that we''re asked to recognize on subsequent challenge screens. This form is shown to aid in ''memorizing'' the images first. Figure 1 User Initial Learning

Go to page: Prev  1  2  3  4  5  6  Next