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Passwords sent as plaintext? (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 year ago by iamak@infosec.pub to c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

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I tried logging in on browser and I had inspected the request. My password was sent in plaintext. Is this a infosec.pub issue or a Lemmy one?

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[–] vedard@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Passwords are always sent to the server, then it is hashed to check it against the value in the database. It's also possible to view your password by inspecting login requests from other websites. TLS is used to secure it while in transit.

Hashing is done as an extra measure of security in case the database is compromised. This measure of security would have been completely void if the server would accept password hash directly. You could log in as any user by using his compromised hash.

[–] iamak@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

this measure of security would have been completely void...

Why not hash it server side too? I'm asking because I'm curious

[–] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That doesn't make any sense. If you hash it once on client and once on server, that means that your password, as far as the server knows, is the client-hashed password. Nothing has changed in terms of security. In fact, you could implement this yourself by hashing your password when creating it and when supplying it.

[–] iamak@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah now that you put it this way I realised my mistake. Thanks

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