Silverado_NL Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 hi everybody.while i whas working on a login script for my forum, i stumbled upon a term called packet sniffing.if you send your password in plain text or unecrypted then somebody could just read it!.so i thought well then ill use the MD5 or swordfish hashing function to make it safer.and then to send it over the internet to the database.but since php is sever sided this is gonna be a problem for me.i dont know JS or any other client sided programming language.so here is my question.is it possible to make a encryption tool with the PHP programming language that will encrypt the password on the client side.are there php compilers on the internet?and if there are!are they any good for using these with encryption methods???thanks in advance.Greets Silver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildteen88 Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 If you want to encrypt the data being sent to and from the server you'll want to use SSL (Secure Socket Layer). Which you can get openSSL for free to be installed on your server. Then to have a secure connection goto https://mysite.com and any requests to and from the server will be encrypted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverado_NL Posted August 30, 2006 Author Share Posted August 30, 2006 oh thats looks alot easyer then writing my own security script.thanks wildteen, this will save me loads of time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverado_NL Posted August 30, 2006 Author Share Posted August 30, 2006 btw is the data encrypted for both the $_POST and $_GET methods????oh damn i got the NO SSL dist from apache.guess i have to reinstall! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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