KeyPress Authorisation
Continuing on from my previous post I’ve developed another authorisation technique. The idea this time is to enable a user to pick a simple password and make it stronger. It works by either generating a random password or a user enters a desired one, then the system creates a timing per character so for example the user picks “cat” as a password, the system then tells the user to hold “C” for 2 seconds, “A” for 0 seconds and “T” for 1 second.
I’ve called this technique “Heyes KeyPress Authorisation” (I’m no marketing expert
), the system currently only accepts alpha input but it could be developed to accept a full character set. Javascript is required to perform the login and I have tested it on multiple browsers Safari, IE 6, Firefox and it seems to work fine.
Demo here:-
KeyPress Auth
Source here:-
HeyesKeyPressAuth
Token based authorisation
My previous post :-
Token based auth




Comments 3
Good stuff Gaz, as for the name, how about Heyes KeyPA (keeper)?
Posted 16 May 2007 at 10:36 am ¶Cheers Jake, yeah that’s miles better than HeyesKeyPressAuthorisation
Posted 16 May 2007 at 10:40 am ¶That’s pretty cool. Top marks for innovation, I like the idea! My suggestion for the name is HKPA.
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