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by teraflop 4367 days ago
Sure, and any sane implementation of BitAuth should use SSL.

The point I'm trying to make is that if you can trust SSL to protect a BitAuth signature, you can also trust it to protect a password. So claiming "passwords may travel over plaintext" as a relative advantage of this scheme is disingenuous; in both cases, you need to provide that protection at a lower protocol level.