Less, let's say, humorously: I note the recent attempt by Bod to discuss the elephant in the room (the password problem), at Priorities perhaps?.

Having just re-read it, I see what I believe is a way to cut the Gordian knot. It could feel like a large, atomic change is needed to both encrypt the passwords, and put in place the workflow needed to do password resets that would be needed because the plaintext isn't available anymore.

But what about making a workflow for password resets now, even though the passwords are still plaintext in the database? It would both set the conditions for then encrypting the passwords as a second, independent step, and already increase security a bit by not having plaintext passwords be emailed around, and sit in people's mailboxes for ze baddies to snarf up.

In reply to Re^2: Ideas for "fixing" PerlMonks 1.0 by etj
in thread Ideas for "fixing" PerlMonks 1.0 by etj

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