FusionAuth is proud to announce the next big thing in end user authentication.

Passwords suck

Standards body, such as NIST, no longer recommend using complex password rules as a means to increase password security.

Many attacks associated with the use of passwords are not affected by password complexity and length.

- NIST Digital Identity Guidelines Appendix A - Strength of Memorized Secrets,

Despite this reality, it is still common to find these outdated rules enforced by many websites. This isn’t the 90’s, and it’s time to stop treating your users like children that need to be told what to do.

Users are cool, but passwords suck. There has to be a better way.

The solution

Three words. Password Gamification.

Through our extensive research, we observed that most users kinda remember their password – they just forget parts of it. Like…did it end with their mom’s birthday, the zip code of their first apartment, or their dog’s name?

Because of this forgetful behavior, users just end up resetting their passwords on a regular basis.

This led us to a real breakthrough. Why make a user reset their password at all? Especially when they already know part of it, or could guess it if you gave them a hint.

We call it Pass-wordle™. Passwords, gamified.

With this new technology, when someone forgets their password, it’s no biggie. No support desk or password reset emails are required. Pass-wordle™ login allows your users to skip all of the traditional hoop jumping and offers a self-service option.

This new gamified experience lets a user guess their password and and optionally receive hints in the form of colored squares. These hints let the user know when they have guessed incorrectly, or when they are on the right track. To increase the stakes, the user is locked out for the day if they exceed 5 guesses without correctly entering their password. In our user testing, this feature really helped increase the anxiety during login, proving to be a huge leap forward in password technology.

Similar to the familiar idea of FOMO, or fear of missing out. We have coined the term FOBLO, or fear of being locked out. We can’t take total credit for this idea, we found the inspiration for this feature after watching Squid Games.

Using Pass-wordle™

Adding Pass-wordle™ is incredibly easy because we’ve enabled it by default, and you can’t disable it. Here is what it will look like for your end users when logging in with Pass-wordle™.

Users will also see a color-coded legend of squares to help them.

• 31 March 2023
  
  
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