Re: Encrypt User ID and Password in client-server communication

From: Kipp Hawley (kh@traxonline.com)
Date: 09/25/02


From: "Kipp Hawley" <kh@traxonline.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 17:02:15 -0700


Hi Hiram -
Is there a reason you can't use SSL on the login page? That's the perfect
way to secure logins - ID and password are never sent in clear text, and the
encryption is handled for you by the browser and the server.

Hope this helps,
Kipp Hawley
Trax Softworks, Inc.

"hdiaz" <hdiaz@compli-scan.com> wrote in message
news:692101c263e7$14259e00$36ef2ecf@tkmsftngxa12...
> Is there a way in .Net to encrypt a user id and password
> that comes as an HTML request from a login page without
> having to use a third party solution?
> In other words, when the user enters the user id and
> password and submits to get authenticated I want the id
> and password to be transferred encrypted to the server.
>
> Thank you,
> Hiram
>



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