puzzle logon

The problem with passwords is that secure ones are hard to remember. People tend to choose easy to remember ones, and re-use them. This makes computer systems vulnerable to brute-force attacks.

I propose that people be given a small puzzle to log on to. Imagine a "Legend of Zelda" logon: a small birds-eye view game of four screens. You have to go North, enter the cave, exit, and play the flute to logon.

There would be lots of other things in the environment and items in Link's inventory. This would make it difficult for a program to hack, and hard for a person to guess.

If someone is watching over your shoulder, just do a lot of differnt things, then do the right combination, then do some more things, and hit 'logon'. The person won't know which things you did were the logon sequence.

To prevent re-use of patterns, each computer system will have a different theme. One might be a city, one might be some woods, etc. That way each person has a unique logon for each system.