The Lowelife » Axure password http://lowelife.com/mumble Days in the life of the Lowe Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:57:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 AxureRP New password pattern implementations http://lowelife.com/mumble/2010/03/05/axure-rp-new-password-pattern-implementations/ http://lowelife.com/mumble/2010/03/05/axure-rp-new-password-pattern-implementations/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:49:18 +0000 thelowelife http://lowelife.com/mumble/?p=69 Continue reading →]]> I had been working on some new password pattern implementations in Axure to match some trends in password masking/unmasking based on something that Jakob Nielsen wrote entitled Stop Password Masking back in 2009.

There have been a number of blogs discussing this and other password masking/unmasking techniques, including that used by the iPhone, where the masking is delayed long enough for you to ensure that you typed the right character. Other sites, such as http://huffduffer.com/login/?login[redirect]=/ offer users a way of unmasking the password to display it in plain text.

While I was working on the iPhone one, someone posted to the Axure forums about the unmasking trick on HuffDuffer and so I threw that in as well.

The RP file for both implementations is available here, courtesy of the most excellent DropBox.

Feedback welcome.

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