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Feature Request: Complex Gesture to Unlock
1Password for iPhone/iPad is great, but typing a very strong password on the device's virtual keyboard can be tedious, especially when considering you have to re-enter it every time you leave the application and return to it. It occurs to me that the ideal unlock mechanism for a touch screen is not a typed password, but a picture drawn with one's finger.
The way I imagine this working is that you set your own custom unlock gesture which would work in addition to the traditional typed password for unlocking. My thinking is that such a gesture would be easy to remember, difficult to crack (if suitably complex) and most of all, very quick to enter on a touch screen device.
An example of the kind of gesture/drawing I mean is, for example, draw a circle anti-clockwise starting at the 6 o'clock position, then draw a diagonal line through it south west to north east, then touch three of the corners of the screen in a particular order. Sounds complex but you can imagine how quick that would be to do once you commit the action to muscle memory. Another alternative might be a stick man drawing, but the key is that each line would have to be drawn in the right order and in the right direction. Obviously a degree of tolerance would need to be built in, and a "gesture strength meter" tool would also be necessary.
This seems like quite a difficult feature to implement but for me it would take 1Password for iPhone OS to a new level of usefulness. Just a thought :^)
The way I imagine this working is that you set your own custom unlock gesture which would work in addition to the traditional typed password for unlocking. My thinking is that such a gesture would be easy to remember, difficult to crack (if suitably complex) and most of all, very quick to enter on a touch screen device.
An example of the kind of gesture/drawing I mean is, for example, draw a circle anti-clockwise starting at the 6 o'clock position, then draw a diagonal line through it south west to north east, then touch three of the corners of the screen in a particular order. Sounds complex but you can imagine how quick that would be to do once you commit the action to muscle memory. Another alternative might be a stick man drawing, but the key is that each line would have to be drawn in the right order and in the right direction. Obviously a degree of tolerance would need to be built in, and a "gesture strength meter" tool would also be necessary.
This seems like quite a difficult feature to implement but for me it would take 1Password for iPhone OS to a new level of usefulness. Just a thought :^)
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That is a really cool idea. It really reflects the kind of new thinking that the touch interface requires.
At the moment, I can't begin to speculate on either the security implications, nor on how feasible this would be to implement.
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There's so many ways you can take advantage of the touch screen capacity for security, the question is how easy can you forget it compared to a password? How about how easy it is for people to memorize images than words? If you draw a circle, draw a line at certain angle, touch three corners, it's far easier to memorize that over somebody's shoulder than it is to remember 490845Nu84$.
We actually need to have a lot of studies done on this to know for sure.Flag 0
