Francois Orsini (JIRA) wrote:
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> http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-866?page=comments#action_12364050 
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> Francois Orsini commented on DERBY-866:
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>>Daniel John Debrunner commented on DERBY-866:
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>>What's the purpose of returning the password column in the table/vti SYSUSERS?
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> Password won't be clearly readable, only the base64 representation of a 
> already hashed password
> - no risk really

I think it's a huge risk. You are giving crackers information to start
an attack. Every encryption scheme is breakable, it's just a matter of
time/cpu usage.

Dan.

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