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RE: Securing password between webserver & appserver.
From: Ken Schaefer <Ken () adOpenStatic com>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 13:48:41 +1000
Is this an internal application? Kerberos can be used to solve this problem for internal apps. Alternatively, can you use client certificate based authentication? Cheers Ken -----Original Message----- From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On Behalf Of Chintan Oza Sent: Monday, 7 September 2009 2:04 PM To: webappsec () securityfocus com Subject: Securing password between webserver & appserver. 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
Current thread:
- Securing password between webserver & appserver. Chintan Oza (Sep 07)
- Re: Securing password between webserver & appserver. Nikhil Wagholikar (Sep 07)
- Re: Securing password between webserver & appserver. Ali, Saqib (Sep 07)
- Re: Securing password between webserver & appserver. Chintan Oza (Sep 07)
- Re: Securing password between webserver & appserver. Ali, Saqib (Sep 07)
- Re: Securing password between webserver & appserver. Chintan Oza (Sep 07)
- Re: Securing password between webserver & appserver. Robert Hajime Lanning (Sep 07)
- RE: Securing password between webserver & appserver. EXT-Adams, Randall E (Sep 07)
- Re: Securing password between webserver & appserver. arvind doraiswamy (Sep 07)
- Re: Securing password between webserver & appserver. Chintan Oza (Sep 07)
- Re: Securing password between webserver & appserver. arvind doraiswamy (Sep 08)
- Re: Securing password between webserver & appserver. Chintan Oza (Sep 07)
- RE: Securing password between webserver & appserver. Ken Schaefer (Sep 07)
- Re: Securing password between webserver & appserver. Till Elsner (Sep 08)
- Re: Securing password between webserver & appserver. bigbert007 (Sep 08)
- RE: Securing password between webserver & appserver. Calderon, Juan Carlos (GE, Corporate, consultant) (Sep 09)
- Re: Securing password between webserver & appserver. bigbert007 (Sep 08)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Securing password between webserver & appserver. Martin O'Neal (Sep 07)
- RE: Securing password between webserver & appserver. Martin O'Neal (Sep 08)