Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Re: Piking behind firewalls [In Progress]

Author:Eric Soroos
Posted:5/10/2000; 2:45:08 PM
Topic:Piking behind firewalls
Msg #:17179 (In response to 17163)
Prev/Next:17178 / 17180

Actually, if you're doing a round trip, all that should be required is that the username/password hash is internally consistent. So consider adding salt, so that it's harder to do a brute force dictionary attack.

(your server is generating it, your server is authenticating it, the client does no processing....)

eric

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