The Gadget Show: Passfaces

Here's an interesting alternative to passwords that uses your ability to recognize human faces to logon to computers and websites. Jon Bentley of the Gadget Show demonstrates how it works.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Passfaces
• Gadget
• Show
• Graphical
• Passwords
• Banking
• Logon
• Faces
• Authentication

[authenticationman]

You DON'T have to associate Passfaces with accounts. The account makes the association and displays the appropriate faces you just click on the familiar ones. Nor do you have to worry about keeping lots of them in your memory at once as part of the human brain is dedicated to face memory and recognition its completely intuitive. As to making us safer: many banks, healthcare companies and government agencies use Passfaces as part of a two factor authentication scheme.

[JonGorrono]

interesting at best... misleading and perhaps irresponsible at worst. Try remembering passfaces for 10 accounts without repeating and keeping the associations with their respective accounts. I have dozens of passwords, all different, and completely impossible to keep in my memory all at once, not to mention with the right associations. This is a *good* thing. Passfaces is novel, but does not make us collectively safer.