[Full-disclosure] Security issue in Filezilla 3.0.9.2:passwordsare stored in plain text (sitemanager.xml)

Joey Mengele joey.mengele at hushmail.com
Tue Apr 22 14:02:57 BST 2008


Valdis,

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:53:55 -0400 Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
>On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:31:53 EDT, Joey Mengele said:
>
>> So are you trying to suggest compression is not as secure as 
>> encryption? Have you even *read* the RFC in question?
>
>The design goal of most compression algorithms is that *anybody* 
>can take
>the compressed data and get back the original.  The design goal of 
>most
>encryption is that *only the intended recipient* can decrypt and 
>get the
>original data back.
>

I think you have your terms mixed up, insert foot here LOLOL. And 
you didn't answer my question. Have you even *read* the RFC in 
question? And please, no "you must work at a fast food restaurant" 
cop outs this time.

J

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