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Aleksey Yeschenko resolved CASSANDRA-6174. ------------------------------------------ Resolution: Not a Problem Storing it in base64 is exactly equivalent to keeping them in plain text. > Cassandra keystore password is in plain text > --------------------------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-6174 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6174 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Config > Reporter: Shahryar Sedghi > Priority: Minor > Labels: lhf > Attachments: 2.1-CASSANDRA-6174.txt > > > It is an extremely bad security practice to keep any password, particularly > keystore password in plain text. it can be easily obfuscated. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)