On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:36:41 -0400, louis gonzales wrote:

Hi Louis

> What are some best practices on an initial form taking a PW/ID from
> a user to login.  Right now one method which seems to be really
> unsecured, is to take them, check them against the PW/ID stored in

How about storing a cyptographic hash - a digest - of the password in the
database?

A module like Javascript::SHA1 can embed the hashing code in the HTML form, and
then you only transmit the digest across the internet (when the form is
submitted).

This is a large and fascinating topic.
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Cheers
Ron Savage, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 27/10/2006
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