Chroma-Hash: a sexy, non-reversible, live visualization of password field input

Re:Chroma-Hash: a sexy, non-reversible, live visualization o... by heroin on Wednesday July 29, 2009 @03:40AM (#729649)

I do not have time to read the code. But if the colors are generated using one way hash, this would be great to have on every site. Using of colors can be replaced by showing the hash in plain text. Everybody would remember their password colors, and typos in password would be history.

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Re:Chroma-Hash: a sexy, non-reversible, live visualization o... by calambrac on Wednesday July 29, 2009 @08:31AM (#729860)

Thanks gods we finally have a security-compromising solution to the world-stopping problem of typos in passwords.

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Re:Chroma-Hash: a sexy, non-reversible, live visualization o... by zackattack on Wednesday July 29, 2009 @11:00AM (#730102)

This has been a big deal around the net as well as HN recently. Your sarcasm is both inappropriate as well as indicative of ignorance. Parent should be upvoted despite the superfluous comment of "didn't have time to read the source", because at first, I didn't perceive why this was useful.

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Re:Chroma-Hash: a sexy, non-reversible, live visualization o... by calambrac on Wednesday July 29, 2009 @11:22AM (#730151)

Yeah, ignorance. I read the Jakob Nielsen article and all the responses, don't worry. At least with his proposal, you got a checkbox to enable the feature, and you knew explicitly without having to understand how hashes work that you were giving away your password if you typed it in view of other people.

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Re:Chroma-Hash: a sexy, non-reversible, live visualization o... by zackattack on Thursday July 30, 2009 @05:20PM (#733100)

I'm sorry. Thanks for clarifying.

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