Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 23:43:15 -0600 From: Chris Cook <ccook@tcworks.net> To: Leif Neland <leif@neland.dk> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is passwords send to auth webpages secure? Message-ID: <38CDD173.EEB690BD@tcworks.net> References: <010f01bf8d42$efda91e0$0e00a8c0@neland.dk>
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Leif Neland wrote: > > > Now I have been asked if the passwords from browser to squid is sent in cleartext, so it can be sniffed? I have tried sniffing passwords like this before as a test, and they always showed up as scrambled (unreadable). I am assuming that my browser (Netscape 4.6/FreeBSD) was using some sort of mild encryption to send the username/login. More info on this would be neat, but you should invest in some switches anyways. Hasto... -- Chris o----< ccook@tcworks.net >----------------------------------------o |Chris Cook - Technician | TCWORKS.NET - http://www.tcworks.net | |The Computer Works | FreeBSD - http://www.freebsd.org | o-----------------------------------------------------------------o To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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