Re: [whatwg] Passwords

2014-10-19 Thread Delfi Ramirez
Hi Anne, hi All: Here, in EEA I've noticed and see the same reasons that Glenn exposes, with subtle emphasis on the reasons three , four and five. Regards --- Delfi Ramirez My digital signature [1] +34 633 589231 del...@segonquart.net [2] twitter: delfinramirez IRC: segonquart Skyp

Re: [whatwg] Passwords

2014-10-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > I'd be interested in hearing why sites such as forums have not made > the switch yet. If you're hosting passwords it seems downright > irresponsible at this point to not use TLS. > The most common reasons I've seen are: - People asking

Re: [whatwg] Passwords

2014-10-18 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Roger Hågensen wrote: > This precludes that a site has a certificate, and depite someone like > StartSSL giving them out free, sites and forums still do not use HTTPS. We recently started doing this for whatwg.org. It was not a big deal (though quite a bit of work

Re: [whatwg] Passwords

2014-10-18 Thread Roger Hågensen
On 2014-10-17 17:09, Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote: Roger Hågensen writes: Also http logins with plaintext transmission of passwords/passphrases need to go away, and is a pet peeve of mine, I detest Basic HTTP-Authentication which is plaintext. Note that Basic Auth + HTTPS provides reliable tran

Re: [whatwg] Passwords

2014-10-17 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Roger Hågensen writes: > Also http logins with plaintext transmission of passwords/passphrases > need to go away, and is a pet peeve of mine, I detest Basic > HTTP-Authentication which is plaintext. Note that Basic Auth + HTTPS provides reliable transport security. > Hashing the password (or

[whatwg] Passwords

2014-10-15 Thread Roger Hågensen
Was "Re: [whatwg] Proposal: Write-only submittable form-associated controls." On 2014-10-16 01:31, Eduardo' Vela" wrote: If we have a password manager and are gonna ask authors to modify their site, we should just use it to transfer real credentials, not passwords.. Passwords need to die anywa