Trouble remembering your password or PIN? Now you can draw your personal security codes—and with security that researchers at Newcastle University estimate is something like a thousand times more secure than alphanumeric codes.
This new technology, called Background Draw a Secret (BDAS) was designed for handheld devices (iPhones, Blackberries, etc.), and builds on emerging Draw a Secret (DAS) technology.
How it works: you draw your password over a background (like a photograph of a flower or the sky at night. The computer remembers the number and order of “pen” strokes used and where you started the image.
