Dear Hopiverse, I took the liberty to push out pull request 586 <https://github.com/apache/incubator-hop/pull/586>. It synchronizes the password encoding of the metadata with the rest of the Hop platform. Mistakes of the past are best not repeated...
To test this fairly small change I then wrote an AES two way password encoder plugin also included in the PR. I wrote the unit tests I thought were needed and wrote the documentation <https://github.com/apache/incubator-hop/blob/43a522b8c7a9f7a03d1c941fb99ebd9468f7f89e/plugins/misc/passwords/src/main/doc/aespasswords.adoc> to go along with it... but I would appreciate an extra couple of eyes to see if it all works as expected to be on the safe side. Thanks in advance, Matt
