UI Experiment: Prohibition
"Secret Knock" Authentication for Mootools
Lately we've been seeing a lot of new ways to provide authentication to your web service. There's OAuth, and OpenID and Facebook connect, but frankly they're all the same boring crap. Just for fun, I thought I would write something a little more interesting.
Prohibition is a "Secret Knock" authentication system for web pages. It allows you to make a DOM Element that a user can click on to record and compare sequences of knocks.
It's completely insecure, but some day one of these trendy speakeasy bars is going to call you up and ask you to build them a webpage, and you're going to hide the directions page behind this thing and they are going to love it. And on that day, you owe me a 12 dollar drink.
Take a look at the crummy looking demo page or fork the code from github.com.
5 comments add comment
Awesome!
- Scott on 09/25/2010
Would love to try it out on touchscreen or with gestures (with mousedown)
- piotr_cz on 09/26/2010
This is funny sh*t
- Rolf on 10/07/2010
This is pretty sweet! Nice gesture. I like the time based, rhythm based passcode.
- JT on 10/22/2010
I love it!!!
- Sarah on 11/05/2010