Passfaces are a visual alternative to passwords. Unlike passwords or PINs, passfaces are easy to remember and cannot be written down or passed on by the user or guessed by an imposter. And unlike tokens or biometrics, passfaces require no additional hardware. Examples include confirming your right to enter a restricted site on the Web, electronic commerce, signing on to computers and using ATMs. With the Passface system, instead of entering a password or PIN to prove your claimed identity, you are shown groups of faces.
Face recognition is a natural, intuitive function of the human brain.
Identifying a face is one of the first skills we learn as babies and there is a part of the brain dedicated to the purpose. You probably mean you're bad at remembering names. Many of us have the experience of seeing someone we know and struggling for the name - fortunately, for the Passface system this is irrelevant. We simply need to know which faces we recognise - not their names. Because we are so good at remembering faces, this takes just a few minutes.