Re: At what layer to hash a password

[arvind doraiswamy <arvind.doraiswamy () gmail com>]

True about the keylogging part. However I'm just saying; a keylogger
might involve installation etc irrespective of the disk footprint size
while a RAM viewer might not. Agreed, if he is "local" he could
potentially do many things - but if you're looking to make your
"application" as secure as you can client side password hashing before
it goes over SSL isn't a bad thing.

Also I was talking more of replay attacks rather than reversing the
hash itself. So if it wasn't salted you could just replay the hash and
gain access. So a random salt generated by the server and then using
it on the client to hash data before it goes out will work.

Hope that clarifies things.

Cheers
Arvind



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