Securing My Clients Password?¿?¿
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 1:35 pm
Hi there,
I´m trying to find a way to secure some of the pages on my wesite. I was going to use a user/password entry page and store the clients password in a session variable so that access can be given to the client for these pages but not to anyone else. I thought this was great until I read that when a password is passed from the client to the webserver via a html password field in a form that it is encrypted using a stanard encryption algorythm so if it was intercepted by anyone then it could easily be decoded by some hacker monitoring the tranmission.
How can I secure this password on the client side using php (or any other means that are free or quite cheap) from anybody monitoring the transmision.
Anyhelp with this would be fantasic.
Williery
I´m trying to find a way to secure some of the pages on my wesite. I was going to use a user/password entry page and store the clients password in a session variable so that access can be given to the client for these pages but not to anyone else. I thought this was great until I read that when a password is passed from the client to the webserver via a html password field in a form that it is encrypted using a stanard encryption algorythm so if it was intercepted by anyone then it could easily be decoded by some hacker monitoring the tranmission.
How can I secure this password on the client side using php (or any other means that are free or quite cheap) from anybody monitoring the transmision.
Anyhelp with this would be fantasic.
Williery