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Re: RFC: Encrypting ~/.subversion/auth on Windows

From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman_at_collab.net>
Date: 2004-11-13 02:03:44 CET

On Nov 12, 2004, at 6:31 PM, Sigfred Håversen wrote:
>
> Slightly offtopic, why not encrypt the passwords for svnserve?

IIRC, because of the way the CRAM-MD5 algorithm works, the server needs
access to the actual password, not a hashed version of it.

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