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though i can see your point, i disagree. for short passwords, say 8-10
characters, i can understand this. but for longer passphrases of 35-50
characters, like mine tend to be, occasionally being able to -see- what one
is typing is very useful. typically, you wouldn't need this, but if your
typing mechanics are off just a bit that day - say you're not quite hitting
shift to capitalize the 10th character - you wouldn't want to spend minutes
wondering what you may be doing wrong when a simple checkbox would
alleviate it. or, say you use the dvorak keyboard layout, as i do, but are
using a friend's computer and it's set for qwerty. though i'm a fairly
speed dvorak touch-typist, my qwerty skills have devolved into a quick
hunt-and-peck. seeing what i'm typing in that case would be helpful indeed.
the whole suite of PGP desktop tools agree and have an option to display
the passphrase as it is being typed, as do several other PGP/GPG-enabled
applications i've used. in every one, it was a checkbox in the passphrase
dialog box, and it always defaults to hidden.
but hey, you're where the buck stops on this one :)
--On Friday, 18 January 2002 16:38 -0500 Theo Schlossnagle
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A checkbox to allow seeing the passphrase promotes bad habits. I would
be opposed to even providing that option.
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Clay Caviness
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