On Oct 11, 2011, at 3:37 PM, Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ) wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Josh Juran <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Since bugzilla passwords were sent in cleartext anyway, I sincerely hope >> none of them were otherwise valuable. (Remember FireSheep?) > > Wait, what? Bugzilla sends passwords in cleartext? That isn't very smart... > Is there no way to replace this with some sort of client based hashing or > something?
To clarify, your browser sends your password to bugzilla in cleartext, since HTTPS isn't an option. Firesheep was a lesson that even once passwords are secure, session credentials are still vulnerable to sniffing. Some sites went to HTTPS-only sessions after that. Josh
