Re: Browser side form encryption

On 06/10/2018 23:51, Guru Partap Khalsa wrote:
> Presently, to encrypt a password type input without javascript, we are 
> forced to trust a server-side script.
> So that for example, the client is actually required to trust the remote 
> server with their password unnecessarily.
> If there were some standard which defined a way in which <input 
> type="password"> were automatically encrypted with sha and salted with 
> the present domain, it would mean that the server can't ever see the 
> user's password. That way, we can make login systems which can't be 
> compromised under any circumstances.

Until a site needs to move/subtly change its domain. Also, salting with 
the domain name means your salt is known to pretty much anybody, so 
rather pointless?

P
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Received on Sunday, 7 October 2018 00:44:56 UTC