On: Keystroke timing obfuscation added to ssh(1)

[Vicinity9635]

I remember seeing this in Lotus Notes. Never saw it before that, or since.

[yencabulator → Vicinity9635]

Oh yes, that could be it! Employer made me run Windows in a VM to read corporate email.

My memory doesn't match videos I can find online of it, but that could be version differences.

[compsciphd → yencabulator]

At IBM someone made something called fetchnotes that worked like fetchmail, but worked with mail and calendar, made me able to get away with minimal usage of notes.

[nmstoker → Vicinity9635]

Yes. Wasn't it to make it harder spoof a password prompt with a static image popping up?

[Cyykratahk → nmstoker]

I think it was to provide an indication that the password was correct at a glance. (IIRC the number of dots in the password field was also generated, so it didn't necessarily match the number of chars)

The image was essentially a simple checksum. Each user would eventually memorise which icon was "theirs".