Re: Secure Yahoo logins

[David Schwartz <davids () webmaster com>]

> > My other question is if the passwords are encrypted why do they offer a
> > secure login
> > option? How does that increase security, other than adding a brief ssl
> > session.

        Because otherwise a man-in-the-middle could serve you a web page that didn't
do any fancy hashing. ;)

        DS