diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 7d9b8b698..db660ad59 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@
         "symfony/console": "~2.5",
         "symfony/finder": "~2.2",
         "symfony/process": "~2.1",
-        "seld/phar-utils": "~1.0"
+        "seld/phar-utils": "~1.0",
+        "seld/cli-prompt": "~1.0"
     },
     "require-dev": {
         "phpunit/phpunit": "~4.5",
diff --git a/composer.lock b/composer.lock
index dfe996228..d15089b0f 100644
--- a/composer.lock
+++ b/composer.lock
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
         "Read more about it at http://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#composer-lock-the-lock-file",
         "This file is @generated automatically"
     ],
-    "hash": "3b9e15f9521bb0a41897f65f76c1c7de",
+    "hash": "0a85d5ff8ee6c1e805ef16f2afd87238",
     "packages": [
         {
             "name": "justinrainbow/json-schema",
@@ -72,6 +72,54 @@
             ],
             "time": "2015-03-27 16:41:39"
         },
+        {
+            "name": "seld/cli-prompt",
+            "version": "1.0.0",
+            "source": {
+                "type": "git",
+                "url": "https://github.com/Seldaek/cli-prompt.git",
+                "reference": "fe114c7a6ac5cb0ce76932ae4017024d9842a49c"
+            },
+            "dist": {
+                "type": "zip",
+                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Seldaek/cli-prompt/zipball/fe114c7a6ac5cb0ce76932ae4017024d9842a49c",
+                "reference": "fe114c7a6ac5cb0ce76932ae4017024d9842a49c",
+                "shasum": ""
+            },
+            "require": {
+                "php": ">=5.3"
+            },
+            "type": "library",
+            "extra": {
+                "branch-alias": {
+                    "dev-master": "1.x-dev"
+                }
+            },
+            "autoload": {
+                "psr-4": {
+                    "Seld\\CliPrompt\\": "src/"
+                }
+            },
+            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
+            "license": [
+                "MIT"
+            ],
+            "authors": [
+                {
+                    "name": "Jordi Boggiano",
+                    "email": "j.boggiano@seld.be"
+                }
+            ],
+            "description": "Allows you to prompt for user input on the command line, and optionally hide the characters they type",
+            "keywords": [
+                "cli",
+                "console",
+                "hidden",
+                "input",
+                "prompt"
+            ],
+            "time": "2015-04-30 20:24:49"
+        },
         {
             "name": "seld/jsonlint",
             "version": "1.3.1",
diff --git a/src/Composer/Compiler.php b/src/Composer/Compiler.php
index b3e4abcdc..749adf659 100644
--- a/src/Composer/Compiler.php
+++ b/src/Composer/Compiler.php
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ class Compiler
         foreach ($finder as $file) {
             $this->addFile($phar, $file, false);
         }
-        $this->addFile($phar, new \SplFileInfo(__DIR__ . '/../../src/Composer/IO/hiddeninput.exe'), false);
+        $this->addFile($phar, new \SplFileInfo(__DIR__ . '/../../vendor/seld/cli-prompt/res/hiddeninput.exe'), false);
 
         $finder = new Finder();
         $finder->files()
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ class Compiler
             ->exclude('docs')
             ->in(__DIR__.'/../../vendor/symfony/')
             ->in(__DIR__.'/../../vendor/seld/jsonlint/')
+            ->in(__DIR__.'/../../vendor/seld/cli-prompt/')
             ->in(__DIR__.'/../../vendor/justinrainbow/json-schema/')
             ->sort($finderSort)
         ;
diff --git a/src/Composer/IO/ConsoleIO.php b/src/Composer/IO/ConsoleIO.php
index 366c67483..622e73ccf 100644
--- a/src/Composer/IO/ConsoleIO.php
+++ b/src/Composer/IO/ConsoleIO.php
@@ -254,71 +254,8 @@ class ConsoleIO extends BaseIO
      */
     public function askAndHideAnswer($question)
     {
-        // handle windows
-        if (defined('PHP_WINDOWS_VERSION_BUILD')) {
-            $finder = new ExecutableFinder();
+        $this->writeError($question, false);
 
-            // use bash if it's present
-            if ($finder->find('bash') && $finder->find('stty')) {
-                $this->writeError($question, false);
-                $value = rtrim(shell_exec('bash -c "stty -echo; read -n0 discard; read -r mypassword; stty echo; echo $mypassword"'));
-                $this->writeError('');
-
-                return $value;
-            }
-
-            // fallback to hiddeninput executable
-            $exe = __DIR__.'\\hiddeninput.exe';
-
-            // handle code running from a phar
-            if ('phar:' === substr(__FILE__, 0, 5)) {
-                $tmpExe = sys_get_temp_dir().'/hiddeninput.exe';
-
-                // use stream_copy_to_stream instead of copy
-                // to work around https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=64634
-                $source = fopen(__DIR__.'\\hiddeninput.exe', 'r');
-                $target = fopen($tmpExe, 'w+');
-                stream_copy_to_stream($source, $target);
-                fclose($source);
-                fclose($target);
-                unset($source, $target);
-
-                $exe = $tmpExe;
-            }
-
-            $this->writeError($question, false);
-            $value = rtrim(shell_exec($exe));
-            $this->writeError('');
-
-            // clean up
-            if (isset($tmpExe)) {
-                unlink($tmpExe);
-            }
-
-            return $value;
-        }
-
-        if (file_exists('/usr/bin/env')) {
-            // handle other OSs with bash/zsh/ksh/csh if available to hide the answer
-            $test = "/usr/bin/env %s -c 'echo OK' 2> /dev/null";
-            foreach (array('bash', 'zsh', 'ksh', 'csh') as $sh) {
-                if ('OK' === rtrim(shell_exec(sprintf($test, $sh)))) {
-                    $shell = $sh;
-                    break;
-                }
-            }
-            if (isset($shell)) {
-                $this->writeError($question, false);
-                $readCmd = ($shell === 'csh') ? 'set mypassword = $<' : 'read -r mypassword';
-                $command = sprintf("/usr/bin/env %s -c 'stty -echo; %s; stty echo; echo \$mypassword'", $shell, $readCmd);
-                $value = rtrim(shell_exec($command));
-                $this->writeError('');
-
-                return $value;
-            }
-        }
-
-        // not able to hide the answer, proceed with normal question handling
-        return $this->ask($question);
+        return \Seld\CliPrompt\CliPrompt::hiddenPrompt(true);
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/Composer/IO/hiddeninput.exe b/src/Composer/IO/hiddeninput.exe
deleted file mode 100644
index c8cf65e8d..000000000
Binary files a/src/Composer/IO/hiddeninput.exe and /dev/null differ