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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2007
Dinei A. Florencio, Redmond, WA (US);
Cormac E. Herley, Bellevue, WA (US);
Dinei A. Florencio, Redmond, WA (US);
Cormac E. Herley, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that facilitate utilizing a shared secret to obscure a password within a sequence of characters. The sequence of characters can include the password as well as noise. The shared secret can leverage utilizing a set of known images that a user can uniquely distinguish from random images. By employing the imaged based shared secret, the user can login to a server from an untrusted machine suspected to be infected with spyware such as a keylogger that tracks user input.
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