At 10:55 AM -0400 6/4/01, Roy Pardi wrote:
>At 8:10 AM -0400 6/4/01, Al Hospers wrote:
>>> Someone's got to be really idle to actually take time out to
>>> memorize the
>>> keystrokes of a font like Wingdings.
>>
>>but that's what hackers do my friend. what you are describing is a REALLY
>>insecure way of protecting a password. I do not sggest it. someone could
>>pcopy the keystrokes out of the p/w field, paste it into another & write a
>>simple translation handler to decode it.
>>
>>I personally prefer to put a single character into the p/w field as you
>>type, hiding the real p/w field off stage.
>>
>
>but unless you have a hacker looking over your shoulder (or a
>younger brother.. ;-) the camouflaging of chars in a pw entry field
>is moot. For probably 95% of situations where passwords need to be
>entered, this security convention is not needed.
>
Exactly. In my particular case, my client is worried about the
potentially malicious college roommate.
Irv
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