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Re: Security issue in Filezilla 3.0.9.2:passwordsare stored in plain text (sitemanager.xml)
From: "Joey Mengele" <joey.mengele () hushmail com>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:31:53 -0400
Andrew, On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:21:21 -0400 Andrew Farmer <andfarm () gmail com> wrote:
On 21 Apr 08, at 12:43, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:04:19 EDT, Joey Mengele said:Exactly, I was talking about the RFC that supersedes that particular RFC.0959 File Transfer Protocol. J. Postel, J. Reynolds. October1985.(Format: TXT=147316 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC0765) (Updated by RFC2228, RFC2640, RFC2773, RFC3659) (Also STD0009) (Status: STANDARD)There is a 3.4.3 in RFC 959 which discusses a "COMPRESSED MODE", which might look superficially like encryption to the untrained eye. However, it appears that most modern FTP clients (and many FTP servers, in fact) don't support it. Also, it's not encrypted.
So are you trying to suggest compression is not as secure as encryption? Have you even *read* the RFC in question? J -- Fly cheap! Click here for great airfare deals. http://tagline.hushmail.com/fc/Ioyw6h4eRrBGYJ3UscagEYUIwguU1xscZkRVAR3AhaA2OI83ydDnAE/ _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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- Re: Security issue in Filezilla 3.0.9.2:passwordsare stored in plain text (sitemanager.xml) Joey Mengele (Apr 21)
- Re: Security issue in Filezilla 3.0.9.2:passwordsare stored in plain text (sitemanager.xml) Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 21)
- Re: Security issue in Filezilla 3.0.9.2:passwordsare stored in plain text (sitemanager.xml) Andrew Farmer (Apr 21)
- Re: Security issue in Filezilla 3.0.9.2:passwordsare stored in plain text (sitemanager.xml) Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 21)
- Re: Security issue in Filezilla 3.0.9.2:passwordsare stored in plain text (sitemanager.xml) Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 21)
- Re: Security issue in Filezilla 3.0.9.2:passwordsare stored in plain text (sitemanager.xml) Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 21)
- Re: Security issue in Filezilla 3.0.9.2:passwordsare stored in plain text (sitemanager.xml) Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 21)
- Re: Security issue in Filezilla3.0.9.2:passwordsare stored in plain text (sitemanager.xml) Garrett M. Groff (Apr 21)
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