Emoticons – pictorial writing instead of PIN – Virtual Poland

 
  Originating from Japan smilies replace traditional password? British technology company as the world’s first developed a system of authentication requires the user to select four emoji characters instead of the traditional digital password.

 
 
 With an extensive database of emotion firm Intelligent enviroments selected the 44 images that you can use to create your password. The use of such a number of emoticons instead of the usual numbers give you 480 times more permutations, and therefore, of course, the security of user data. Dingbats passwords are not only harder to break, but also easier to remember . Graphically, we can save a lot more information than in the form of string writing. A study conducted by the company at the 1337 Brits showed that 1/3 of them have forgotten your PIN, and every fourth person use the same PIN for different securities.

 
 Emoji maya another key advantage. With them we will not be able to create trivial passwords in the style of the date of birth or the name of a loved one that are easy to break by cybercriminals. Intelligent enviroments is already talking with selected banks. If they successfully completed the system Emoji Passcode will be implemented as early as next year.