<cfscript>
password = 'Password123';
password_firstchar = left(password,1);
password_lastchar = right(password,1);

writeOutput(password_firstchar & '***' & password_lastchar);

writeOutput('<p>&nbsp;</p>');

writeOutput(password_firstchar);
writeOutput(repeatString('.',len(password)-2));
writeOutput(password_lastchar);
</cfscript>