Password length
Password length
Posted May 16, 2013 14:46 UTC (Thu) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)In reply to: Password length by robbe
Parent article: Fedora's invisible passwords and visible squabbles
Way back when, VAX/VMS used to output either one asterisk or three for every password key pressed, on a random basis. This had the advantage of letting the user know that their keypress had registered, without giving bystanders a good clue how long the password in question actually was.