Re: Login credentials and session id security

[AdityaK <aditya1010 () gmail com>]

Vishal,
Best way to protect the proxy,MITM and DNS poisoning attacks is use of
One time tokens.
But they are also prone to Active MITM attacks.In order to achieve a
fool proof method better surrender yourself to cryptography(Zero
Knowledge proofs )  SRP(http://srp.stanford.edu/) based implementation
is a good start in which you dont effectively send the password.
This article will give some insights of how  to protect the
webapplication from session
hijacking.(http://technicalinfo.net/papers/WebBasedSessionManagement.html)
Hope this Helps
Regards
AK
On 6/6/07, Vishal Garg <vishal () firstbase co uk> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Can someone please tell what is the most secure way of sending login
> credentials to the server. The possible ways that I am familiar with are:
>
> - get method
> - post method
> - hidden form fields
>
> By using an encrypted connection we cannot sniff the credentials, but
> still it is very easy to capture or manipulate these credentials
> using a web proxy from any of these methods. So I am looking to find
> a method to transport the credentials to the server so that the
> security of these credentials can't be compromised even by deploying
> a web proxy.
>
> Also once a session id is generated, what is the best way to maintain
> the security of a session id.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Regards
> Vishal
>
>
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