Patent ID: 7386731

Claim:
A password input table creating method for creating a password input table referred to when inputting a password in a computer, the method comprising: displaying on a display a creation table having multiple entry fields each of which is to be an input area for one character; entering, in the entry field of the creation table, each of characters composing a password to be inputted into the computer through an interactive process; creating a password input table by randomly entering possible characters to be used for a password in entry fields of the creation table which have no character inputted therein; and outputting the created password input table, wherein the creating first enters, in the entry fields of the creation table which have no character inputted therein, characters selected from characters left after deleting characters of the entered password characters from possible characters to be used for a password, and then enters, in the remaining entry fields which have no character inputted therein, characters selected from all the possible characters to be used for a password, and wherein the displaying displays, as the creation table, a creation table having more entry fields than the sum of the number of characters used for the password to be processed and the number of characters left after deleting the characters used for the password to be processed from the possible characters to be used for a password.