Hello all,

I'm trying to work out a solution to a problem, and I thought I'd ask 
here in case anyone has any ideas.

First a bit of background. I just wrote a post in my blog about a secure 
login with PHP and JavaScript without SSL. The basic idea is that the 
server sends the client a random key, then both the server and client 
append the hash value of the client's password to the random key and 
produce another hash from the new string. Then the server compares the 
string to see if it and the client got the same result. You can see the 
full post here: http://www.lightcubesolutions.com/blog/?p=47

This appears to do just what it was intended to do. My problem now is, 
how do I securely register the user in a similar fashion? In other 
words, how would I get the hash of the password securely to the server 
in the first place, or in the event that a user wishes to change her 
password? I have an idea brewing already, but it's the sort of thing 
that I think would be easy enough for a third party to break.

Any thoughts?

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JH
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