To *** or Not to Mask: Usability Versus Security in Password Masking
On June 23, Jakob Nielsen posted an article declaring that password masking on the user interface is more harmful in terms of usability than helpful to the security of an application to which Bruce Schneier, in a June 26 blog post agreed. Both argued that masking the characters when a user enters a password is [...]
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To *** or Not to Mask: Usability Versus Security in Password Masking
