---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Manuranga Perera <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 5:11 PM
Subject: Security questions are encoded
To: Johann Nallathamby <[email protected]>, Jayanga Kaushalya <
[email protected]>, Isura Karunaratne <[email protected]>


Security questions are base64 encoded [1]. If they are encrypted (eg: RSA)
or hashed (eg SHA) I can understand that it's for security reasons. All
this does is obfuscation, poorly even at that, since base64 can be easily
decoded.

Or is it done for non-security reasons, like escaping special characters?

[1] https://github.com/wso2/product-is/blob/6.0.x-C5_m3/
portal/osgi-services/org.wso2.is.portal.user.client.api/src/
main/java/org/wso2/is/portal/user/client/api/ChallengeQuestionManagerClient
ServiceImpl.java#L113

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With regards,
*Manu*ranga Perera.

phone : 071 7 70 20 50
mail : [email protected]



-- 
With regards,
*Manu*ranga Perera.

phone : 071 7 70 20 50
mail : [email protected]
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