Re: Securing password between webserver & appserver.

[Nikhil Wagholikar <visitnikhil () gmail com>]

Hi Chintan,

May be you can think of One Time Password (OTP) as an alternative to PKI.

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2009/9/7 Chintan Oza <chintan.oza () gmail com>
> Dear All,
>
> We have a web application which perform user authentication on
> id+password basis.
>
> The architecture is like this.
> Browser<-HTTPS->WebServer<-->AppServer
>
> We have a requirement where password should not be available to the
> WebServer (even in hashed format).
>
> Only solution that I can think of is having an Applet performing PKI
> encryption on the password before submitting the form.
>
> Please suggest if there are any better alternatives.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chintan