There's apps that do this, like kdewallet. I was thinking of a picture pin entry. You display a small set of pictures with lots of detail, user must tap 1 or more points on each pictures. Quick entry, good number of bits of encryption, easy to remeber. Plus, when the phone comes up with a picture, to anybody else it just looks like it's stuck booting or broken.
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of thomasg Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 12:19 PM To: List for Openmoko community discussion Subject: Re: MokSec - The Security Framework On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Kalle Happonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I had some thoughts about that, too. Would be cool if it wasn't necessary to have a PIN at all - you enter the PIN in the "first-run-wizard", that will store it. After that you only have one password (of your choise) that does all - the security daemon would lookup in a key/password-database and use your password for all things, like decrypting the other containers (phonebook, messages, e.g.), authing you on the network with the stored pin, unlocking the phone screen, .....
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