I had some troubles with access to my E-gold account last days, and I sometimes got a message "wrong passphrase", and then my account was blocked for 15 mins, and then again unsuccesful attempt. I ony succeded to enter from fifth or tenth attempt.
I tried to contact e-gold service by e-mail and telephone, but only Jay, whose e-mail I found in this mailing list had contacted me and advised to check my computer and keyboard. I checked everythind and found the source of this trouble. I am using very nice Punto Switcher program, which automatically switch keyboard layout (this is very useful for users with national character sets, in my case this is russian language). But in this case the following things happen: when I registered at E-gold, I typed the passphrase, and the Punto automatically switched to russian layout. But I did not notice that behind to asterisks. I retyped the word in next field, and of course, both passwords match! But it was not password what I was thinking about. Next days, my Punto sometimes was switching to russian layout and sometimes no, so sometimes I was able to login, and sometimes no. At the end I started to suspect what Punto can be the reason of my troubles, and turned it off at all! Of course after this I was not able to login at all! Conclusion: It may be useful to have checkbox on the login page, what allow to turn off "asterisk mode" in passwords. I already noticed such checkbox on some other sites and it is very useful. For example, I use computer at home and nobody can see what I am typing. Another tip: you can type your password on notepad and then copy and past it into "asterisked" password field. So you can see exactly what you have typed. You can read "Live Journal" version of my troubles here: http://boardgames.h1.ru/story/egoldstory.htm PuntoSwitcher homepage (russian): www.punto.ru/switcher --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
