[Cryptography] Order of username and password entry
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Wed Apr 7 19:18:05 EDT 2021
On Mon, 5 Apr 2021, Jerry Leichter wrote:
> In most cases, you can easily clear the information off the screen. It
> was harder back in the days of teletypes where what you typed was on a
> piece of paper.... :-)
It was quite amusing with our KRONOS system; it would print a line of "I E
H" overwriting it with backspace so the dot-matrix printer would not show
the password; it looked really funny on a CRT...
-- Dave
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