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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