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Sounds like it would be a pretty good "did I type my password correctly?" indicator.


Lotus Notes has one of those with a set of keys. I recall that the first couple of times it was weird -- then it seemed to make sense. What is really weird though -- it puts in additional XX characters when you typed out your password. So type out "pass" and it might display "XXXXXXX" Which I guess is effective for preventing over-the-shoulder information leakage but weird all the same.


You might be interested in Chroma Hash for that sort of purpose: http://mattt.github.com/Chroma-Hash/


woudn't you need to be sending the password over to the robot icon people to get the imag?




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