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

Oops! I'll have to remember that one....

Laurence J Praties
Systems Administrator
Gazelle Informatics Ltd
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laurence.praties@gazelle.net

                                                                                                    
                    Robert Collins
                    <robert.collins@itdoma To: laurence@gazelle.net
                    in.com.au> cc: Priamikov "Alexei (NovSU)"
                                                  <apriam@info.novsu.ac.ru>,
                    08/03/01 11:13 AM squid-users@squid-cache.org
                                                 Subject: 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 - 06:27:41 MDT