Thread: 0.5.7 Minilogin, and LS release
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Old 09-19-2004, 04:30 AM
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The problem with that is that if they sniff packets they can pull out the md5, and even though they can't get it back out, they can send it already hashed. Of course, we could defeat that with a salt, but SSL would still be far more secure.
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