A sexy, secure visualization of password field input

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

by marknutter • 17 years ago

4 6 17 years ago

foxxtrot.github.com

marknutter2• 17 years ago

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

hellotoby• 17 years ago

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.

marknutter2• 17 years ago

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.

ghoerz• 17 years ago

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

sfall• 17 years ago

that looks great

tptacek• 17 years ago

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

A sexy, secure visualization of password field input

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