Re: [squid-users] usermane and password for auth module

On 03 Aug 2001 10:57:14 +0100, laurence@gazelle.net wrote:
>
> I'm not sure which browser you're using, but i know for sure that IE5
> encrypts the password using base64 encoding, i _think_ netscape uses this
> as well....

base64 _encoding_. an encoding is not an _encryption_.

There is 0 security gained by the use of base64 encoding - it's simply a easy emthod to encapsulate the username and password without limiting the characters used.

Rob
Received on Fri Aug 03 2001 - 04:10:48 MDT