How to protect your password from keyloggers
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Presumably, this means that keyloggers can detect that you’re typing a password by observing that the sequence of keypresses has high entropy. I believe this is an actual technique that’s used to identify password-like strings from a disk dump (although I’m unable to find the reference right now). However, I didn’t think it made sense in the keylogging context, and indeed someone who says he’s looked at a lot of keylogger data confirms that detecting when a password is typed is fairly trivial, regardless of what kind of characters your password uses.
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POSTED Monday February 8th
