Nuutti Kotivuori <naked@iki.fi> writes:
> I don't see a reason why we couldn't base64 the password if wanted,
> but I'd like to see a case where one could stuble on it by mistake
> first.
We did something similar in CVS (for the pserver access method).
FWIW, I think it wasn't worth it. It may obscure the password from a
few accidental exposures, but it also gets in people's way when they
needed to see the cleartext that they knew was there, and of course it
provides no real added security.
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Received on Mon Nov 11 00:25:48 2002