On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 03:34:35PM -0400, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote: > Or if using X (or even gpm?) you can just paste in the password from a > selection. The selection doesn't even need to be visible -- a simple > Tcl/Tk (or similar) script will let you type a (blinded) password and > make the text the default selection. You paste, then clear the > selection. For the severely paranoid though, the cut/paste buffers might well end up on the swap disk, whereas most properly written password entry routines prevent swapout. -- ------------------------------------------------------ Use Linux: A computer Dale Amon, CEO/MD is a terrible thing Village Networking Ltd to waste. Belfast, Northern Ireland ------------------------------------------------------ Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
