Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces

Re:Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Inte... by eridius on Friday August 03, 2018 @03:44PM (#17682995)

It would not surprise me in the least if the 1Password unlock animation is a deliberate attempt to hide the time it takes 1Password to decrypt your password list.

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Re:Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Inte... by juancampa on Friday August 03, 2018 @04:04PM (#17683159)

Stating that they are decrypting (and it takes time) would probably change users' opinion from "this is slow" to "this is secure"

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Re:Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Inte... by npunt on Friday August 03, 2018 @04:05PM (#17683178)

I seem to recall reading this when I investigated before. Article is shooting the messenger in a way, the animation is not the problem. Agilebits (the co who makes 1password) generally aren't the types to introduce superfluous elements.

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Re:Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Inte... by kenneth on Saturday August 04, 2018 @05:56AM (#17686181)

It's not the decryption process that is slow (computers can do AES really really fast these days), it's the deliberate slowness introduced by PBKDF2, which attempts to thwart brute force attacks.

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