about password protection

[arun_mrk]

When the view source is selected from the browser,
password textbox value appears in the source.

Is encryption the only option to protect passwords?

ofcourse we can use viewstate also.

What are the other option ?

 

[SteveD]

Can you be a little more specific about what you mean by "password textbox value"? Do you mean that txtPassword.Text is actually visible in plain text, or the value you are evaluating against is visible?

.steve

 

[arun_mrk]

Actually i mean textbox with textmode property set to password

 

[SteveD]

Heh... okay, well I kind of figured that much.

What is the HTML in the source that is displaying the password? There should be no way to see a password using view source, unless youve hard-coded the password into in-line code. And if youre doing that, you have a lot bigger problems than trying to figure our some sort of encryption.

.steve