@hakfoo@mstdn.party @neilsardesai@mastodon.social I remember this as well, but never quite understood the details. Which, I guess, was part of the idea: it wasn't necessary to understand it, it was easily use intuitively. I also seem to remember that it didn't necessarily print one "*" for each typed letter, but "grouped" them in some way, so it wasn't even possible to "read" the length of the password purely from observing the password entry field.