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Recognizing Your Own Handwriting As A Password

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the sounds-suspiciously-like-reading dept.

Gary writes "A new online authentication system called Dynahand could make logging in to websites a little easier. With Dynahand, users simply identify their own handwriting, instead of entering a cryptic password or buying a biometric device to scan their fingerprints. The user's handwriting samples contain only digits, since numerals are harder for an outside party to recognize than letters are. The digits displayed are random, so the handwriting is the only clue to the correct answer."

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  1. How about poor geeks like me... by boaworm · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...who virtually cannot write by hand anymore? I can't even write a proper signature, haven't been using hand writing since I was playing RPGs 10+ years ago.

    I'd say it would be pretty hard to determine how my digits would look like.

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    1. Re:How about poor geeks like me... by Atraxen · · Score: 5, Interesting

      It's a bad call if it's the only authentication entry, but if it's in addition to something else it might be good. Many banks seem to be going for the 'something you know, and something you recognize' auth motif (banking as one example, where you recognize and identify a preselected word or graphic.) Maybe soon for really secure accounts, we'll have a fairly painless set of layers, ala: something you have - the random PIN cards, something you know - pword, something you i.d. - (handwriting/picture/word)?

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