How to protect your password from keystroke loggers

Roaming users who use untrusted machines to access password protected accounts have few good options. An internet cafe machine can easily be running a keylogger. The roaming user has no reliable way of determining whether it is safe, and has no alternative to typing the password. We describe a simple trick the user can employ that is entirely effective in concealing the password. We verify its efficacy against the most popular keylogging programs.