New Message: Re: password challenge in manila

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By: David Carter-Tod (wccartd at wc.cc.va.us)

Not sure of the answer to your question, but a mini-wish for Manila would be for the password form to MD5 the password /before/ sending it across the network.

This can be done via Javascript. A sample implementation is here:
http://blackboard.wcc.vccs.edu/

The MD5 code can be downloaded from that page (or it seems) from here:
http://cvsweb.horde.org/annotate.php/webshop/lib/md5.js?sbt=1&rev=1.1

I'm not a security expert, so I don't know how big of a security plus it would be.

David

This is a Manila site.. http://manila.userland.com/.