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Re:XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unrepl... by kortilla on Sunday March 31, 2024 @03:32AM (#39882216)
It doesn’t actually do anything because if SSL is compromised then all of the junk you think you are telling the client to do to the password is via JavaScript that is also compromised.

If you’re worried about passive listeners with ssl private keys, perfect forward secrecy at the crypto layer solved that a long time ago.

For browsers at least, sending passwords plainly over a tls session is as good as it gets.

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Re:XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unrepl... by solardev on Sunday March 31, 2024 @09:19AM (#39883988)
It's not to protect against MITM but against credential reuse. It offers no additional security over SSL but what it does protect against is user passwords being leaked and attackers being able to reuse that same password across the user's other online accounts (banks, etc.).
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