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Re: Encrypted or Not Encrypted
From: "Douglas C. Duckworth" <stlpcsecurity () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:36:18 -0500
If you connect with SSL, you perform the handshake first. Thereafter all data is encrypted. You don't send your password first. That would make no sense since the data is viewable as plain text.
More information: http://www.schneier.com/paper-ssl.pdf Rob wrote:
So how are the credentials protected in network transit to the secure site? The way you explain it, I see the creds being exposed on their way to the secure site.Optimally they should enter their creds after ssl has setup the secure session, not after..What am I missing? Rob Sent from my iPhoneOn Sep 12, 2008, at 6:44 AM, Eifrém Strinnholm Jonas <Jonas.Eifrem () sweco se> wrote:Encrypted. -----Original Message-----From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] OnBehalf Of amatachick () gmail com Sent: den 11 september 2008 20:25 To: security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: Encrypted or Not EncryptedI've run into this issue a few times now and would like to know what y'all think. Here is the situation: A website not using SSL has a login page. As soon as credentials are entered on this page they are redirected to a siteusing SSL. Here is a specific example of the code on one such site: <form name="loginpersonal" method="POST"action="https://secure.sitename.com/engine/login/login.asp" onSubmit="returncheckLoginForm(this);"> <input type=hidden name=IsPostback value=1> Now, from what I understand, the login credentials would still be unencrypted while traveling to the secure site. So that would negate theeffect of having it redirect to a secure site in the first place. Right? I keep brining up this fact but all I get back is that it's being redirected so it's secure. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here so I'd appreciate some feedback. Am I wrong? If I am I can handle that, I'd just like to know.Thanks!
Current thread:
- Encrypted or Not Encrypted amatachick (Sep 11)
- Re: Encrypted or Not Encrypted Roman Fulop (Sep 12)
- Re: Encrypted or Not Encrypted Gregory Rubin (Sep 16)
- Re: Encrypted or Not Encrypted Garry Baker (Sep 12)
- RE: Encrypted or Not Encrypted Eifrém Strinnholm Jonas (Sep 12)
- Re: Encrypted or Not Encrypted Rob (Sep 16)
- Re: Encrypted or Not Encrypted Douglas C. Duckworth (Sep 16)
- RE: Encrypted or Not Encrypted Basha, Arif (Sep 16)
- Re: Encrypted or Not Encrypted Douglas C. Duckworth (Sep 17)
- Re: Encrypted or Not Encrypted Roman Fulop (Sep 18)
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- Re: Encrypted or Not Encrypted Roman Fulop (Sep 19)
- Re: Encrypted or Not Encrypted Rob (Sep 16)
- Re: Encrypted or Not Encrypted Roman Fulop (Sep 12)
- Re: Encrypted or Not Encrypted Rob (Sep 17)
- RE: Encrypted or Not Encrypted Boaz Shunami (Sep 17)
- RE: Encrypted or Not Encrypted Marco M. Morana (Sep 16)
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- Re: Encrypted or Not Encrypted ab_e (Sep 12)
- Re: Encrypted or Not Encrypted krymson (Sep 12)