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A sexy, secure visualization of password field input
- sfall 17y agothat looks great
- marknutter 17y agoMy question is, why not just get rid of password confirmations altogether, or at least make them an optional feature for security conscious users.
- hellotoby 17y agoPassword confirmations aren't really there for security. More as a sanity check to make sure the user hasn't accidentally typed their password incorrectly.
- marknutter 17y agoWell, 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 17y agoPrevious discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=729556 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=729556
- tptacek 17y agoThis 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