On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 4:49 PM, ndluthier <[email protected]> wrote:

> Do your needs require you to do ALL of the processing client-side (in
> the bookmarklet) or can you do some server-side processing/
> authenticating?
>

Since the passwords are to be used client-side anyways, I wouldn't even "go
there". Always minimize the number of attack-vectors. Since the client must
know the unhashed password at least at some point, there's no point in
sending it back and forward to a server, increasing the risk of opening
an(other) attack vector in the process.

I think Lasse's objections are valid and will be very hard to get around,
since it'll be hard to create such a script and only use operators,
primitives and literals. Maybe not impossible, but very hard (like, where
will you save it without using a global method? :)

- peter

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