On 2008-09-12, ge7r85o02@sneakemail.com  wrote:

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> To all who opposed the suggestion to send one block of data

> when the  key is pressed: my suggestion strictly referred

> to the login procedure, not to the later data communication. I did

> not mention this because I thought it was clear from the context

> of the original poster who

> has expressively mentioned "passwords". You may want to reconsider the suggestion in this light.

The initial password is sent as a block (of course that simple case

was taken care of). The problem OP mentions relates to passwords typed

within the session e.g. su, sudo, ssh to another host, ...