18 Jan
2006
18 Jan
'06
8:33 a.m.
Sometime on Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 01:50:46PM +0530, Sanket Medhi said:
Yes! :) But I think there should be something else in these widely used tools to configure proxy. Storing the username/password in such a way is definitely insecure.
As it is its insecure. The user must realise that his credentials are being transported in plain text format over the network. That's why there's no point in giving him/her false sense of security.
For the same reason, fetchmail, gaim, internet dialers.. all store passwords in plain text.
Anurag
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