On 2016-11-17 9:28 AM, Pine W wrote:
> 1. If you don't trust that strength testing site (which is fine), choose
> another. I did a couple of quick checks on that site; while it's entirely
> possible that I missed something, it appeared to me that the site was not
> sending passwords over the Internet, whether in the clear or encrypted. The
> use of HTTP or HTTPS is irrelevant if the data isn't getting sent out in
> the first place.
Using HTTP means that a man in the middle could inject a script into
these sites that would extract any password entered into them.

~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/]


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