Subj : Re: Presenting a new(?) idea for free open source software development. To : comp.programming From : Ben Pfaff Date : Tue Aug 09 2005 01:51 pm "Ingvald Straume (from Norway - Europe)" writes: > I'm a 32 years old novice to average programmer, and I have an idea > which I believe to be fairly good: An authentification system to > replace the old fashion password authentification method. The general > idea is that a user - using the computer mouse - draws his/her > signature onto a canvas on the login screen. The login program records, > from millisecond to millisecond, the mouse motions and the curve drawn > on the canvas by the user. Then the program compares the curve with an > already stored pattern which has been preadapted to match the authentic > users graphical mouse signature. A related scheme for graphical passwords was analyzed in Usenix Security 2004: http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec04/tech/thorpe.html -- "MONO - Monochrome Emulation This field is used to store your favorite bit." --FreeVGA Attribute Controller Reference .