[Edbrowse-dev] masking of passwords

[Kevin Carhart <kevin@carhart.net>]

This is established edbrowse behavior and not new,
so it may already have been discussed or
concluded.
But does it seem a little worrisome that passwords
are echoed as they are typed?
I just noticed this on fastmail.

I know that at the time I type i2=password,
or something, edbrowse
has no way of knowing what I want to do next or
the fact that I'm about to address i2, which is
an html form element of type "password".
So it's impossible to mask out the password with
asterisks or dots the way you can if you're
typing into something that is pre-established to
be a password.
But what if there was an invisible mode?

i1=username
dne (or some keys meaning 'enter the do-not-echo mode')
i2=password
dne
i3*

Kevin




On Thu, 17 Dec 2015, Kevin Carhart wrote:

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> Also, to highlight the good news too:
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>> problem areas as well.  For example, Amazon now works extremely well,
>
> Is that right!  Well that's great to hear!
>
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