I tried logging in on browser and I had inspected the request. My password was sent in plaintext. Is this a infosec.pub issue or a Lemmy one?
I tried logging in on browser and I had inspected the request. My password was sent in plaintext. Is this a infosec.pub issue or a Lemmy one?
First of all thanks for the very detailed response. I have a few questions.
Like you said, why not use public key cryptography? Why is it not well supported for web-apps?
Why not use something like Diffie-Hellman algorithm to share the password? Signal protocol uses ECDHE so I am assuming that it’s safe against mitm which the base Diffie-Hellman is vulnerable to (I might be wrong. I couldn’t find if it waa vulnerable or not).
You are describing TLS, which is commonly used for websites and web apps.
Try the following command:
openssl s_client -connect infosec.pub:443The public key, the authority that signed the certificate, and the cypher used will all be visible.
For me, the cipher used is
ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384.Oh. Okay. I’ll check it out once. I’m pretty new to all this so I didn’t know this is how SSL works.