[Wine] WineHQ database compromise

[Josh Juran]

On Oct 11, 2011, at 3:54 PM, Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ) wrote:

> 2011/10/11 Josh Juran <josh at iswifter.net>
> 
>> To clarify, your browser sends your password to bugzilla in cleartext, since HTTPS isn't an option.
> 
> Shouldn't it be possible to modify the login environment so that a salted hash of the password is produced before sending it to the server, to strengthen the security a little bit?

That protects the password itself, but not the privilege it guards.

It also essentially makes Javascript a requirement, which currently it isn't.

Josh