Notes/Domino 6 and 7 Forum : RE: Could we get the HTTP Password hidden again?

Notes/Domino 6 and 7 Forum

RE: Could we get the HTTP Password hidden again?

RE: Could we get the HTTP Password hidden again?
Posted by ~Justin Minluternivu on 26.Mar.03 at 12:39 AM using a Web browser
Category: Domino Server

Release: 6.0.1

Platform: All Platforms

"[T]his is not built on any type of encryption"? Are you joking? Any message decode based on nothing more than brute force (no prior knowledge of the algorithm) requires a sufficiently long message to find patterns. In other words, while it may require a 512-bit public/private key system to encode long documents securely, a password doesn't qualify. Especially when one considers that passwords should be relatively "unguessable" to begin with. I'd rather it remain the way it is now -- I can tell at a glance whether the reason a user can't access the web site is because he hasn't set his internet password yet. The "old" way meant using the document properties or putting the person doc into edit mode just to verify the existence of a password.