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Re: Credentials held unencrypted in memory during runtime

From: Ron Wilson <ronw.mrmx_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:50:06 -0400

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> And if you can execute code, you can just read out *all* passwords from
> the encrypted auth file Subversion creates. All you need is the SVN
> source code to find out how SVN itself decrypts that file and do the same.
> And with that, you have *all* passwords for *all* your repositories, not
> just the one currently used in the still running process.

If this is truly the case, then SVN is not implemted correctly.
However, that would be for a different mail list.

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