[ID Discuss] entering password twice

[Garrick Van Buren]

Think of the 2nd password entry field as the 'memory-reinforcer'.



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On Apr 23, 2004, at 2:59 PM, Victor Lombardi wrote:

> In the case where we are creating a password, we are
> often asked to type it twice in case we typed it
> incorrectly the first time, since the text field does
> not display the characters and we can't visually
> confirm what we typed is correct.
>
> I'd like to know if anyone has evidence that shows
> this is effective across all users of a system. I'm
> skeptical; do 99% of users have to type an extra field
> for the 1% who make a mistake and who would otherwise
> need to use the recover password function?
>
> Has anyone tried to measure the percentage of times
> people mistype the password the second time?
>
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