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Brandon Williams commented on CASSANDRA-6174:
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base64 doesn't seem like any kind of improvement to me, we might as well just
leave it in plaintext.
> Cassandra keystore password is in plain text
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> 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
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> It is an extremely bad security practice to keep any password, particularly
> keystore password in plain text. it can be easily obfuscated.
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