don't use SPACE key in passwords [BUG]
Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 10:52 pm
i doubt anyone would do this, but just for the record (and because it is technically still a bug).
when creating a new image via IFW (v2.71) in Windows 7 i accidentally ticked 'Encrypt Image', and rather than go back i just hit the Space Bar for the password. three days later i needed to restore it and used a new 2.71 IFD boot disk. this disk was created with the 1024x768 'windowed' options.
i was certain the password was just one tap of the Space Bar but IFD just came back with "Invalid Password". after more than an hour of password guessing i noticed that when the password field reset it would show an asterisk for every attempted character except spaces. maybe it was somehow not registering them?
i tried again with my old 2.55 IFD boot disk which has the standard, lo-res DOS interface and sure enough the one-tap-of-the-space-bar password is now accepted!
the only difference - apart from the older version - is the nature of the IFD interface.
when creating a new image via IFW (v2.71) in Windows 7 i accidentally ticked 'Encrypt Image', and rather than go back i just hit the Space Bar for the password. three days later i needed to restore it and used a new 2.71 IFD boot disk. this disk was created with the 1024x768 'windowed' options.
i was certain the password was just one tap of the Space Bar but IFD just came back with "Invalid Password". after more than an hour of password guessing i noticed that when the password field reset it would show an asterisk for every attempted character except spaces. maybe it was somehow not registering them?
i tried again with my old 2.55 IFD boot disk which has the standard, lo-res DOS interface and sure enough the one-tap-of-the-space-bar password is now accepted!
the only difference - apart from the older version - is the nature of the IFD interface.