Are Enter Keys Coded Differently?

[Patrick Asselman]

On 2013-07-11 10:50, Graham Todd wrote:
> I have both an Enter key in my keyboard and another marked "Enter" to
> the right of the keypad.
>
> Recently, I created a passphrase that was input by pressing the
> far-right Enter key, which seems to require me to input the passprase
> with the far-right Enter key.
>
> This has me wondering.  Are the two keys encoded differently?
>
> Graham Todd

I'm pretty sure the keys are wired differently in the keyboard, but the 
question is what happens between the electronics and the passphrase 
software... there may be a layer somewhere that declares them similar. 
Then again, you want as little layers as possible for passphrase code in 
order to make it more secure.

There is a command line program "showkey" that will show what key is 
pressed. The X11 equivalent is "xev". I can't try them here b/c I only 
have access to Redhat via ssh at the moment.

In any case, I'm pretty sure it's not a good idea to have a key like 
that in your passphrase. What if your keyboard breaks and your new 
keyboard does not have the same key? Better to use the normal exotics 
~!@#$%^&*()_+ etc.

Best regards,
Patrick