[Seaside] Proper password hashing

Peter Kwangjun Suk peter.kwangjun.suk at gmail.com
Tue Apr 12 03:05:54 UTC 2011


On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Boris Popov, DeepCove Labs
<boris at deepcovelabs.com> wrote:
> Peter,
>
> Even if you salt it, the attacker had sniffed the legit user's session key or cookie already. MITM FTW.

True that, but I think that most would bother, while a >plaintext
password< is a bit too glaring a target.  So something more a step
more secure than plaintext is what I'm looking for, just to keep
kiddies away from my dev server.  I'll probably be implementing SSL
eventually anyhow.

--Peter

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