[JDEV] registering a new user

Dustin Puryear dpuryear at usa.net
Thu May 24 11:44:13 CDT 2001


Jens Alfke wrote:
>      Just to confirm what I think is true: during registration your only
>      option is to send the password in plain-text using <password/>?
> 
> As far as I can tell, yes. If you're concerned about security you can use SSL to connect to the server.

Assuming a non-SSL client, wouldn't this make the use of digest
authentication a bit "too little, too late" in many situations?

Regards, Dustin

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