Obscuring password data in a data grid

[Bob Sneidar]

If it's anything like important to protect these passwords, show 8 bullets for everything. For one, you don't have to worry about column width for really long passwords, and secondly, knowing how long a password is goes a long way towards brute forcing it. 

Bob


On May 13, 2011, at 7:13 AM, Keith Clarke wrote:

> ...good points well made, Chris. 
> 
> The password protect font was intended to a) show the user that they'd actually entered something and b) provide 'over the shoulder' protection.
> 
> My intention is to have the data grid read-only but with rows selectable. Row data entry/editing would be in a dialogue box. So, I will try to hide the real passwords in the underlying array - and show just the equivalent number of a place-filler characters in the data grid.
> Thanks,
> Keith..