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[Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 18 September 2013 14:07:44 Michal Suchanek wrote:
> The circular lock should make entering codes easier than the keypad.

Exactly, it should. But it doesn't. It makes it more cumbersome.

> 
> Either way, it's way better than entering password on a touch keyboard.

No... the number pad is way easier and faster to use than every prototype of 
the circular unlock screen we've come up with so far.

> 
> Thanks
> 
> Michal
> 
> On 18 September 2013 13:14, Michael Zanetti
> 
> <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > we already have some prototype implementation for this [1], started even
> > before the videos appeared on the web. We decided to not focus on this
> > unlocking method right now as the code is either too hard to enter (it
> > takes you ages to input something like 2948) or is too insecure (1, 2, 3,
> > 4 is reasonably fast to enter, but too easy to guess for an attacker).
> > That said, we might still have a look at this again in the future.
> > 
> > Br,
> > Michael
> > 
> > [1] https://code.launchpad.net/~mzanetti/+junk/lockscreens
> > 
> > On Wednesday 18 September 2013 12:38:36 Bram Geelen wrote:
> >> some time ago, I saw the beautiful lock screen designs by Lucas Romero Di
> >> Bendetto <http://lucasromerodb.blogspot.be/search?q=unlock>, and
> >> yesterday
> >> I finished implementing them.
> >> 
> >> I hosted the source over at https://github.com/brambram/QML-Lock .
> >> 
> >> Now, I hope that this would be added to the real Ubuntu Touch, but how
> >> would I go about that? I have no clue about how to use launchpad,
> >> frankly.
> >> 
> >> Thanks!
> >> 
> >> Bram
> >> 
> >> (
> >> http://guidopallemans.blogspot.be/2013/09/some-time-ago-i-saw-beautiful-l
> >> ock .html )
> > 
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