> Just FYI, the nav bar thingies and the unencrypted login page still  
> don't transmit your password in plaintext, even if there's no visible  
> encryption going on, unless you don't have Javascript enabled. The  
> login form uses JS to hash your password first, and only transmits  
> the hash, not the password itself. (LJ does this, too.)
> 
> Not quite what you were asking for, but still!

OooOOooo.  Very slick.  I didn't know that.  Thanks for mentioning it.

Hmm.  Does it do anything to protect against man-in-the-middle
grabbing of the encrypted token?  I seem to recall hearing that LJ
does something elaborate to that end w/ JS (possibly dependent on
HTTPS).
 
-- Siderea
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