Re: Idea for securityfix in HTML

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On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 23:04:18 +0100
"Xatr0z" <xatr0z@home.nl> wrote:

| We hope this idea will be included in the W3C standards of HTML and
| XHTML.

I deeply hope this is a troll.

This is a terrible idea for the following reasons:

a) Rot13 and Base64 provide no security at all. Assuming rot13'd data is intercepted, it can be easily decoded by a 10 year old with a pen and paper.

b) MD5 isn't even encryption -- it's a hash -- not reversible. Thus the server couldn't decode the information at the other end anyway!

c) Why bother when we already have HTTPS? HTTPS provides security infinitely better than all the methods you have suggested.

d) HTML is dead, there are no plans to recommend any further versions.

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