Captcha useless

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Mr. Flibble
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Captcha useless

Post by Mr. Flibble » Sat Aug 15, 2009 10:06 am

Does no one realise that the admin login captcha will do nothing at all to stop a brute force attack? The captcha answer is sent in cleartext in the html!
src="../Captcha.ashx?w=300&h=80&id=065375&sid=1&t=054202"

Can this be fixed please? I suggest you remove "CAPTCHA image on administrator login page to prevent brute force attacks" on the feature page until it is fixed.

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Re: Captcha useless

Post by sohaib » Mon Aug 17, 2009 10:02 pm

That is because you haven't set your encryption key. Once you set the encryption key you will not see the captcha value in clear text.

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Re: Captcha useless

Post by Mr. Flibble » Wed Aug 19, 2009 4:45 pm

OKi doki.

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