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Re:Chroma-Hash: a sexy, non-reversible, live visualization o... by calambrac on Wednesday July 29, 2009 @02:39PM (#730672)
How do you know it's "someone else"? It's the login page, you don't know who you're displaying the page to yet.

And if you mean a different salt every time the page gets loaded: doesn't that completely skip the supposed point, which is to give the user a recognizable visual cue that they typed the right password?

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Re:Chroma-Hash: a sexy, non-reversible, live visualization o... by Meatshoes on Wednesday July 29, 2009 @06:59PM (#731294)
The demo seems to highlight its use as a visual cue that your confirmed password is the same as the original. Not that useful in my opinion, as one attempt at creating an account with non-matching passwords will tell you they don't match anyway, and you (usually) only create an account once.

Still, pretty cool demo and very nice colour schemes.

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