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Passwords sent as plaintext? (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I tried logging in on browser and I had inspected the request. My password was sent in plaintext. Is this a infosec.pub issue or a Lemmy one?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (12 children)

The server needs to receive your password to verify it and log you it. That's how it always is. As long as you are connecting via HTTPS, this is not a problem.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Please forgive me as I haven’t coded anything in 15ish years but even when making shitty PHP message boards back in the day we would always hash and salt passwords. The server would never see a plain text version of your password.

HTTPS is nice but that doesn’t guarantee what the server is doing with my plain text password.

Edit: I just had the thought that when coding those message boards the PHP running on the server side would get a plain text password via POST, hash/salt it, then store that in a database to use for comparison later. So I guess the server did need it in plain text in that application. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The server would never see a plain text version of your password.

As you realized in your edit already, this part is not correct. The server would always receive your password plaintext (when signing up and when logging in), but only store it hashed and salted.

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