A sexy, secure visualization of password field input

Posted by marknutter on Thursday November 05, 2009 @03:56PM
from the foxxtrot.github.com dept.

http://foxxtrot.github.com/Chroma-Hash/

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Re:A sexy, secure visualization of password field input by tptacek on Thursday November 05, 2009 @04:45PM (#924851)

This is

* Not particularly sexy (it's 3 colored bars)

* Not particularly secure (it reveals information about your password that drastically reduces a brute-force search)

* Extremely confusing to users

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Re:A sexy, secure visualization of password field input by marknutter on Thursday November 05, 2009 @03:57PM (#924748)

My question is, why not just get rid of password confirmations altogether, or at least make them an optional feature for security conscious users.

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Re:A sexy, secure visualization of password field input by hellotoby on Thursday November 05, 2009 @05:47PM (#924961)

Password confirmations aren't really there for security. More as a sanity check to make sure the user hasn't accidentally typed their password incorrectly.

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Re:A sexy, secure visualization of password field input by marknutter on Thursday November 05, 2009 @06:12PM (#925016)

Well, I mean the starred out password fields. Why have them in the first place? Why not just have a password field that acts like any other text field, showing you what you've typed. Seeing this elaborate color based password match plugin kind of speaks to the absurdity of it.

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Re:A sexy, secure visualization of password field input by ghoerz on Thursday November 05, 2009 @04:18PM (#924796)

Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=729556

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Re:A sexy, secure visualization of password field input by sfall on Thursday November 05, 2009 @04:33PM (#924828)

that looks great

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