Re: Challenge/response questions?

[Kevin Shalla <kshalla () UIC EDU>]

Something that can be useful to ask is some information on academic data, like
Who are all your professors this term?
What was your ACT score?
Who submitted a letter of recommendation for admission?

Of course this depends upon access to this information in some campus database.

At 12:57 PM 4/10/2009, Witmer, Robert wrote:
> There must be a better way!  We have a customized single sign on
> solution and are looking at self service password resets from a web
> page.  Everything after authentication has been worked
> out.  Currently we are thinking of using challenge/response type
> questions to verify account ownership.  However, either most of the
> information is available on line (mother's maiden name = genealogy
> sites) or includes personally identifying information (SSN last 4)
> that we don't collect and don't want to use.
>
> Anyone have a better idea?  If not, anyone have better
> challenge/response questions?
>
> Regards,
> Bob