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Webclient URL encoding

Ok I'm trying to make my programs AUTH as un crackable as possible. So i tried packet sniffing while running it and entering the AUTH details. But when I hit enter the URL it was downloading the data from was clear as day. And I'm wondering if there is a way to encrypt/encode the URL so it wouldn't be that clear and fairly easy to crack if you know what your doing.

Speak Thursday, June 26, 2008 4:08 PM

From what i understand you have a desktop application and this app require to authenticate on server using the WebClient and an URL. The users that run the app don't know the URL but they can use a free program like Fiddler to monitor the requests and they can find the authenication data.

In this case what you can do is to send the private data encrypted and decrypt her on your server. Just you, the programmer will know the encryption alghoritm.

Calciu Sorin Thursday, June 26, 2008 7:11 PM

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