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




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