On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 10:56:27AM +0000, Martin Ebourne wrote: > Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagalt...@gmx.de> wrote: >> Which is reasonably doable without the aid of tools, because you >> can easily inspect these files: Subversion stores *everything*, >> and that includes the passwords, in pure, untarnished clear text. > > I say better clear text than rot-13. Unless it has passwords properly > encrypted with a master password, and associated session management (which > would be nice, but as far as I know no-one has implemented this for svn > yet), clear text seems to be the best choice.
Firefox and friends use Base64 for storing passwords. -- Philippe Bruhat (BooK) The greatest enemy is the one you do not know. (Moral from Groo #8 (Image))
