I’m creating a small windows application that will use Discourse as the SSO provider. The first step in that chain is allowing the app to create a user through the Discourse API. I’ve got that working, however it seems that the password for the user is passed in plain text and I’m wondering why tha…

Yes, SSL is considered sufficient to protect secrets in-flight. Until the world sees the light and switches to something like TLS-SRP, sharing secrets over a secured channel are pretty much all we’ve got to work with.

is there any way to pass an encrypted password instead of plain text password ? we are developing one app in which we are using /session api for checking authentication of the user. where username and password need to be submitted. i noticed one thing that lets say if you go to browsers developer t…

If SSO is enabled, the password is not being used at all, so this is not an issue. Just provide some random characters.

if you want to go the extra mile, you can do certificate pinning in your APP to make sure there is no man in the middle attack.

[image] Siddhu_Dhangar: is there any way to pass an encrypted password instead of plain text password ? As long as you’re using TLS, passwords are sent encrypted. If you’re not using TLS, you’re on a fast train to doom regardless. If you meant “hashed” rather than “encrypted”, then no, that…

Should the password be plain text when creating a user through the API?

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Siddhu_Dhangar (Siddhu Dhangar) June 15, 2020, 5:39pm 3

Can we send encrypted password instead of plain text password ?

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Should the password be plain text when creating a user through the API?

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