On Tue, March 20, 2007 11:52 am, Alain Roger wrote:
> There is a trend on internet that when you want to change your
> password, you
> need to type :
> 1. the former password.
> 2. the new one
> 3. a 2nd time the new one to confirm that no mistake has been done on
> step
> 2.
>
> however, several website also propose an additional security to avoid
> hacking/brute force, they display a 4 digit image with a "random"
> string
> including number and letters... something like A3P23.
> if user do not respect case and string, password is not changed.
>
> I would like to know how such system works and if a tutorial exist
> about
> that ?

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