KEkeyurparalkar·Feb 25, 2018Submission
A sexy, secure visualization of password field input
2 points · Open discussionmattt
Chroma-Hash
JavaScript2009–2018
mattt / Chroma-Hash · Archived
Chroma-Hash
A colorful visualization of password field input
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3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
617GitHub stars
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A colorful visualization of password field input
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2009 | 2009-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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3 sourcesChroma-Hash – A sexy, secure visualization of password field input
1 points · Open discussionIt's not very well presented in the demo (there's no need for the Confirm inputbox), but the point is not for password creation, but for login. From the author's github page (http://github.com/mattt/Chroma-Hash/tree/master):
Chroma-Hash displays a series of colored bars at the end of field inputs so you can instantly see if your password is right... Your password will display the same sequence each time, so you can learn to expect "blue, red, pink", for instance; if you instead see "green, purple, yellow", you'll know you typed it wrong.
So the chromatically-impaired will not lose anything over current functionality, they just won't get the benefit.
In Chroma-Hash: a sexy, non-reversible, live visualization of password field input