Alexander Mueller wrote:
> However HTTPS does not prevent that the Administrator of the 
> destination server is acquiring the actual plain text data.

So the .value of this input would already be hashed?  Otherwise, this argument 
fails: the page can just grab the value and do whatever it wants with it.

> Additionally it provides a semi-encryption as well 
> as replay protection to non-SSL connections.

Weak encryption is almost worse than none: it provides a false sense of safety 
without an appreciable increase in security...

-Boris

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